MARS and MERCURY preferred shares define a two tier equity stack as Metaplanet raises new capital.  ( 35 min )

The bank said billions in passive flows could unwind if MSCI removes Strategy from major equity benchmarks, heightening pressure on the bitcoin-levered firm.  ( 34 min )

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 20, 2025  ( 40 min )

Strong NVIDIA guidance lifts pre market sentiment across bitcoin miners while NAKA delivers delayed Q3 losses.  ( 34 min )

A long-term BTC holder moved hundreds of millions to exchanges, but the market absorbed the supply shock as altcoins suffered broad declines.  ( 36 min )

The company sees bitcoin as a store of value, similar to gold, a spokesperson told Bloomberg.  ( 33 min )

Cathie Wood's investment manager added to its holdings of Bullish (BLSH), Circle Internet (CRCL) and Bitmine (BMNR) as all three companies' stock prices fell.  ( 32 min )

A new Delaware filing for the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust signals BlackRock’s intent to enter the yield-bearing ether market as issuers wait for SEC clarity on staking.  ( 32 min )

The probability of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates has decreased significantly, now standing at 30%.  ( 33 min )

Aztec Network launched its Ignition Chain, becoming the first fully decentralized Layer 2 protocol on Ethereum's mainnet.  ( 33 min )

The ARC will operate within a two-tier framework, complementing the RBI's Central Bank Digital Currency.  ( 34 min )

Leader in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, blockchain, DeFi, digital finance and Web 3.0 news with analysis, video and live price updates.  ( 36 min )

Despite no major catalysts, broader crypto market weakness and Bitcoin's 'Death Cross' contributed to XRP's decline.  ( 35 min )

With CryptoQuant flagging an exhausted demand wave and Polymarket traders clustering around an 85,000 retest, the market is trading without the catalysts that drove last year’s gains.  ( 34 min )

RAG and Agent frameworks promise a lot: But if you’ve actually tried deploying them into finance, legal, compliance, operations, or automation, you’ve probably noticed the same thing I did: They’re structurally unstable. This is not a hallucination issue. Let’s break it down. 🧩 1. Retrieval is inherently non-deterministic ANN (HNSW/IVF/ScaNN) is approximate. index rebuilds change the top-k embedding drift changes neighbors adding documents shifts similarity space internal randomness changes ranking If the retrieval set changes, 🧩 2. Context construction is unstable LLMs don’t treat all chunks equally. They’re sensitive to: order of chunks length differences truncation behavior position in the prompt subtle formatting shifts Same chunks ≠ same output. 🧩 3. LLM planners amplify randomness…  ( 7 min )

Most “Automation” Isn’t Really Automation A practical look from a developer’s perspective Developers see it every day. A spreadsheet macro. A Python script on someone’s laptop. A cron job gluing two APIs. An AI tool used for a quick repetitive task. Every team has these microautomations lying around. Useful, yes. Scalable, no. If you want the long-form writeup that inspired this, it’s here: https://liteed.com/blog/automation-approach. Microautomation shows up as: scripts exports macros tiny AI helpers scheduled tasks They reduce friction but fail the moment you need: documentation monitoring handoff between people consistent behavior scaling across teams This helps the individual, not the organization. AI looks powerful, but in practice behaves like upgraded macros: great…  ( 7 min )

The TDD + AI Revolution: How Systematic Refactoring Beats the "Move Fast and Break Things" Mentality v.j.k. ・ Jun 23 #ai #tdd #cursor #development  ( 6 min )

Just wrapped up the 11.18 Akuna OA, and the feedback was surprisingly consistent: “The questions look easy… but one messy implementation and you’re done.” Akuna doesn’t reward clever tricks — it rewards clean logic + zero-bug code under pressure. Below is a beginner-friendly, stable-pass breakdown of all three problems. If you’re prepping for Quant / Trading / Strategy, feel free to copy and practice directly. Task: Given a string s and an integer k, return the shortest substring containing at least k occurrences of 'I'. If multiple substrings have the same length, pick the lexicographically smallest one. This problem looks like it needs sliding window, but honestly the safest OA solution is much simpler: Loop i through every starting index. From i, expand j forward until the substri…  ( 7 min )

German is also available: https://dev.to/devtronic/android-apps-mithilfe-von-1password-signiere-472o Android developers know: If you want to upload an app to the Google Play Store, the app bundle or APK must be signed with a key. As an individual developer, the process is relatively straightforward: Create a Java Key Store (JKS) Add a signing key to the JKS Create a key.properties file containing details such as the key alias and password Use this to sign the app From a security perspective, neither the JKS nor the properties file should be committed to a VCS. This introduces several challenges: I need to ensure the JKS is stored in a secure location to avoid loss. When working in a team, every developer must store the JKS and properties file locally. If a new key is added to the JKS, all …  ( 8 min )

If the last cycle taught Web3 anything, it’s this: nobody wants to manage private keys - not users, not businesses, not even engineers who pretend they enjoy it. WaaS takes the messiest part of Web3 - key storage, recovery flows, compliance, multi-chain support - and turns it into something businesses already understand: an API call. Modern WaaS systems rely on three pillars: 1️⃣ MPC (Multi-Party Computation) 2️⃣ Account Abstraction (AA) 3️⃣ Enterprise KMS + compliance rails Fintech apps, neobanks, trading terminals, gaming studios, and loyalty platforms are all adopting WaaS for one reason: They want Web3 features without building a crypto team of 20 engineers. WaaS lets companies integrate: On-chain payments Loyalty tokens Digital identities Trading features Multi-asset custody …with UX that feels like Web2, not Web3 from 2017. Even exchanges are evolving. Let’s be honest: users, revenue, and regulatory clarity — not a devops nightmare where one lost seed phrase becomes a million-dollar problem. WaaS gives them battle-tested infra, compliant rails, and UX users don’t rage-quit. It replaces Web3 chaos with something CFO-friendly. Wallet-as-a-Service isn’t just another crypto trend. When onboarding becomes a one-click experience, Web3 adoption stops being a dream - and starts becoming a default.  ( 7 min )

Turning raw notes into a polished, professional presentation can feel overwhelming — especially when you’re dealing with messy bullet points, long paragraphs, or scattered ideas. The good news? AI tools now make it possible to convert notes into a ready-to-use presentation in minutes, without needing any design skills. In this blog, you’ll learn exactly how to turn your notes into a presentation using AI, the best tools for the job, why AI slide generators are becoming essential, and how MagicSlides makes the whole process even easier. AI presentation tools are designed to read your notes, understand the structure, and generate slides with proper layout, visuals, and flow. Saves hours of manual work Creates structured slides instantly Fixes formatting issues automatically Generates d…  ( 8 min )

GPU-Powered Networking: The Future of Blazing-Fast Model Training \Are you tired of sluggish performance when training massive models across multiple GPUs? Do you dream of a world where data flows seamlessly between GPUs without CPU bottlenecks? Imagine a Formula 1 race where the CPU is the pit crew, slowing down the car. That is now over! Introducing a revolutionary approach: GPU-initiated networking. This paradigm shift allows GPUs to directly manage communication with each other, bypassing the traditional CPU-mediated model. This reduces latency and overhead, significantly accelerating distributed training. We now have a high-speed highway for data, giving the GPU all control of the car to reach a higher max speed. Traditionally, the CPU acts as the traffic controller, orchestrating …  ( 7 min )

This approach is based on my personal experience, and is one of many approaches you'll find online. Go to the Anaconda website and download the shell script (.sh file) of Miniconda. Create a folder say myfolder at your suitable location. mkdir myfolder cd myfolder Paste the miniconda.sh file inside this folder (optional, but I did for convenience) bash ~/miniconda.sh # follow interactive prompts: # - accept license (yes) # - choose install location (default: ~/miniconda3) OK # - at the end it asks to initialize shell; say "yes" (or you can init manually later) After install, either restart terminal or source the shell rc: # restart terminal or source ~/.bashrc Stop auto-activation of base (recommended) : conda config --set auto_activate_base false Now base will not activate automati…  ( 8 min )

(Zuerst erschienen auf: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/android-apps-mithilfe-von-1password-signieren-julian-finkler-erlce) Android Entwickler wissen: Wenn man eine App in den Google Play Store hochladen möchte, muss das App Bundle bzw. das APK mit einem Schlüssel signiert sein. Als einzelner Entwickler ist der Prozess relativ trivial: Man legt einen Java Key Store, kurz JKS, an Man legt in diesem JKS einen Schlüssel zum signieren ab. Man legt eine key.properties Datei an, in der die die Details, wie Schlüssel oder das Passwort des Schlüssels stehen. Man signiert die App damit. Aus Sicht der Sicherheit sollten natürlich sowohl der JKS als auch die Properties-Datei nicht in ein VCS eingecheckt werden. Das bringt eine Reihe von Herausforderungen mit sich: Ich muss mich darum kümmern, dass der…  ( 8 min )

The Figma community is constantly evolving, and so are the plugins that help designers move faster, smarter, and more creatively. 1. Pixlore — AI-powered Design Assistant Pixlore helps designers create and iterate layouts through natural language. Wireframe or Autolayout to refine your generated results. 2. Autolayout Pro AutoLayout dynamically lays out layers in frames and updates the layout when the dimensions of child layers change. It behaves similar to Framer Stacks and the Anima Toolkit for Sketch. 3. Content Reel Manage real text and image content easily across your design system. 4. Iconify Access over 150,000 icons from multiple libraries — Material, Feather, Fluent, and more — all inside Figma. 5. Color Palettes ( Colorsinspo ) : Color & Accessibility Tools Explore and apply curated color sets from Dribbble and Color Hunt. 6. Mockuuups Studio Most Popular Mockup Plugin with 4500+ Device Mockups. 7. Wireframe Speed up the ideation stage by dropping prebuilt wireframe components for common UI patterns. 8. Font Preview Preview, compare, and apply different typefaces in real time. 9. Batch Styler Edit multiple text and color styles at once. 10. FigGPT An AI-powered writing tool for designers, helping you generate microcopy, UX writing, and placeholder text that fits the tone of your brand. 💡 Plugin Combinations Worth Trying Pixlore + Wireframe + Mockuuups Studio → from idea to showcase in under 5 minutes. Autolayout Pro + Batch Styler→ perfect for managing complex design systems. Content Reel + FigGPT → streamline your text and content workflows. Final Thoughts Pixlore are redefining how designers interact with AI and automation inside their design tools.  ( 7 min )

VS Code tasks are powerful, but most developers barely use them. The problem is not the feature itself. It is the workflow. Tasks are hidden behind menus, the command palette, or a tasks.json file that nobody enjoys editing. Running the same commands over and over becomes a small but constant tax on your focus. I built TaskDeck to remove that tax. I wanted a simple way to see all tasks in one place, launch them with one click, and stop jumping between JSON files, menus, and shortcuts. No magic, no reinvention. Just a faster way to work inside VS Code. VS Code Marketplace Repository VS Code tasks are one of the most useful features in the editor. They let you run scripts, build steps, linters, tests, and any command you need with a single entry. They should save time. Instead, most develop…  ( 11 min )

OK this was so much fun: Googles Gemini 3 is amazing. just got it to redesign my home page. I was having fun with this one so no real idea what I wanted just vibing along. It gave me a matrix style hero component which blew me away. This is so cool and the fact that I can spend less than an hour to improve my personal site is insane. I used goose coding agent for this one which is open source and free and I just put my Gemini API key in which I am still using a free trial so my total cost for having fun was zero. Was quite impressed that by giving Goose the link to an image it just downloaded it for me and added it to my public folder of my site. One less tedious task for me to do. Towards the end I had the crazy idea of creating 7 hero component designs that change when you refresh the page. Why? Cause it's cool. This is maybe not how you build production apps but it sure is great for prototyping and getting to learn how new tools work and improving your communication with AI Agents and LLMs. I encourage you all to take time out of your day and play around. Build a personal site even if you never deploy it. Improve your personal site and modify the design just for fun. Have fun cause Gemini 3 is pretty amazing and the tools we have available to us right now is insane. And of course don't forget to run the Playwright healer agent after you have changed your design so your tests are updated. All it takes is a prompt. I didn't show it in this video but check out my other videos on Playwright Agents. Have fun and happy vibe coding Links: https://block.github.io/goose/ https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/  ( 7 min )

Hey friends! Last summer, we walked through the big picture of The DevEx Audit—a full-scale look at where your team is bleeding time and patience. We talked a lot about the value of good Developer Experience. But sometimes you don’t need a whole audit; you just need a wrench to turn a stuck bolt. Today's post is about those wrenches. We're picking out 5 small, fast moves that teams might overlook: things you can fix in a sprint (or even an afternoon) that will pay you back every single day. None of them are glamorous, but all of them are measurable. And together, they shave hours off lead time, clear away flaky roadblocks, and make the daily flow of work smoother. Let’s pop the hood and run through Blink’s Five Quick DevEx wins! Shorten your CI cycle. Smooth the local setup. Tame the pull…  ( 8 min )

Welcome! If you’re a developer curious about tapping into the world of bug‐bounty programs—where ethical hacking meets real rewards—you’re in the right place. This blog post will guide you through how you (yes, you) can turn your coding and troubleshooting skills into a potential income stream, while doing good by helping platforms and websites become safer. Imagine this: you find a serious flaw in a web platform, you responsibly disclose it, the company thanks you—and pays you. That’s the core idea behind bug-bounty programs. Ethical hacking isn’t just theory—it’s real, paid work. Companies are increasingly crowdsourcing security research because they know they can’t catch every flaw internally. For example, research shows that bug-bounty programs help vendors reduce risk and increase val…  ( 10 min )

You have a brilliant idea. It came to you in the shower or during a commute—a SaaS concept that solves a specific pain point, has a clear target audience, and potential for recurring revenue. You rush to your computer, fire up your terminal, and type npx create-next-app. The adrenaline is pumping. You are ready to build the next unicorn. But then, reality hits. Before you can write a single line of logic that makes your app unique, you have to set up authentication. Then you need to configure the database connection. Then comes the Stripe integration, webhook listeners, protected routes, email transaction providers, and responsive dashboard layouts. Three weeks later, you are still debugging a JWT token issue. Your enthusiasm has waned, and your "brilliant idea" is gathering dust in a fold…  ( 11 min )

Lesson 26: Custom Strategy Development ⏱ Duration: 2.5 hours 🎯 Learning Objectives: Learn to write your own trading strategies from scratch So far, we've been using pre-made strategies. But true advancement is the ability to develop your own strategies based on your trading ideas. This lesson will teach you: Basic structure of Freqtrade strategies How to implement buy and sell logic How to add and use technical indicators Complete strategy development workflow Practical examples from simple to complex Create user_data/strategies/MyFirstStrategy.py: from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy from pandas import DataFrame import talib.abstract as ta class MyFirstStrategy(IStrategy): """ My first custom strategy """ # Strategy basic information INTERFACE_VERSION = 3 …  ( 16 min )

Most shadows on the web still look like 2015: one heavy blur, too dark, pasted everywhere. Real products need shadows that signal depth without stealing attention, work on light and dark canvases, and don’t tank performance. This guide is the fastest way I know to ship professional, layered shadows in production. It combines a mental model, copy‑paste recipes (CSS + Tailwind), a small token system, and a QA checklist you can use in code reviews today. TL;DR Single shadows rarely read as depth. Use 2–3 layers with decreasing opacity and increasing blur. Typical per‑layer opacity lives between 0.06–0.22. Prefer slightly negative spread on the tightest layer to avoid chalky halos. In dark UI, use larger blur + lower alpha, not “darker shadows”. Don’t animate box-shadow on big surfaces; animat…  ( 9 min )

1) Performance & Architecture Rust core with Python bindings (PyO3) Advantage: The workflow engine, agent execution, LLM provider integrations, concurrency manager, and resilience primitives are implemented in Rust. This gives lower runtime overhead, real multi-threaded parallelism, and predictable memory usage versus Python-only orchestration layers constrained by the GIL. Memory: The core selectively uses optimized allocators (e.g., jemalloc on Unix) and pre-allocation patterns, reducing allocation churn. Python-facing APIs expose results without pushing heavy orchestration back into Python. Concurrency: GraphBit implements per-node-type concurrency control in Rust with atomic counters and wait queues, enabling high-throughput scheduling without a single global semaphore bottlenec…  ( 9 min )

Introduction In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need sharper visibility into how users actually interact with their websites to keep conversions moving in the right direction. Yet many still struggle with unclear click patterns, unnoticed drop-off points, and pages that fail to hold attention, simply because they cannot see what users truly experience. These gaps make decision-making slow and often inaccurate, leading to lost opportunities across product pages, landing pages, and key conversion paths. This is where WordPress Heatmaps step in, offering visual behavioral insights that help businesses refine their website with clarity and confidence. WordPress do offer different heatmap plugins, so that one can know the customer journey and their insights in detail. You will get…  ( 8 min )

🌍 ¿Por qué Java sigue siendo tan importante en pleno 2025? Han pasado casi 30 años desde que Java apareció por primera vez, y aún hoy sigue siendo uno de los lenguajes más utilizados en el mundo del desarrollo backend. Su lema original, “Write once, run anywhere”, sigue más vivo que nunca: el código Java puede ejecutarse prácticamente en cualquier sistema, lo que lo ha mantenido como un estándar en empresas de todos los tamaños. De hecho, se estima que Java se utiliza activamente en más de 120 países para proyectos backend, desde aplicaciones bancarias hasta plataformas de streaming, sistemas de salud y soluciones empresariales complejas. Entre ellos, India, Estados Unidos, Alemania y España destacan como grandes centros de talento Java, pero India lidera ampliamente el uso de Java en entornos backend, gracias a su enorme ecosistema de desarrolladores y empresas que confían en su estabilidad y escalabilidad. 🚀 La evolución de Java: del código clásico al Java moderno Si pensamos en el Java de los 2000, lo recordamos como un lenguaje robusto pero muy verboso. Y la evolución no se detiene. En Java 25, encontramos mejoras notables en rendimiento, la madurez del Project Loom (concurrencia ligera con virtual threads), y una sintaxis más clara con pattern matching y record patterns, que simplifican enormemente el trabajo diario de los desarrolladores. 🤖 Java en la era de la inteligencia artificial El auge de la IA no ha dejado a Java atrás. Spring Boot, Quarkus o Micronaut, demostrando que Java continúa siendo el motor del backend empresarial… incluso en la nueva era de la inteligencia artificial. 💬 En resumen Java no es solo un lenguaje que sobrevivió al paso del tiempo; es un lenguaje que ha sabido adaptarse y reinventarse. Java no está envejeciendo. ☕  ( 7 min )

Discover tailored health insurance solutions with Aetna — a name trusted by millions nationwide. From individual and family plans to Medicare and employer coverage, Aetna offers flexible options that prioritise your well-being. With nationwide access to top healthcare providers, personalised support, and affordable plans designed to meet your unique health needs, Aetna is a reliable partner for your health coverage journey. Individual & Family Plans Agents and Brokers Employers Dental Providers Over 16 million members trust Aetna for dependable health coverage and service. Speak with a Certified Aetna Agent Individual & Family Health Plans: Coverage includes preventive care, doctor visits, hospital stays, and prescriptions. Aetna offers reliable, affordable, and flexible health insurance b…  ( 8 min )

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become indispensable tools for creating intelligent and intuitive applications. For Apple developers, Swift offers a powerful and integrated ecosystem to harness this potential directly within their apps. Far from being an afterthought, ML capabilities are deeply embedded into Swift and its frameworks, providing developers with robust, performant, and privacy-focused ways to build smart features. This in-depth blog post will explore the core components of Swift AI, highlighting how developers can leverage Apple's built-in ML power to create cutting-edge applications. Apple's approach to ML is characterized by a cohesive ecosystem designed for performance, ease of use, and privacy. This …  ( 13 min )

I just published a new video in my Fullstack Development series, and this one is important for every frontend developer, Accessibility and Semantic HTML. Most beginners skip this topic, but accessibility is one of the core skills that separates a beginner from a real frontend developer. In this video, I covered: Why accessibility matters How semantic HTML improves user experience Using alt text, aria-labels, and roles Keyboard navigation basics and tabindex attribute A quick Lighthouse accessibility check Small improvements to our resume project If you're learning frontend or polishing your fundamentals, this will help you write cleaner, more readable, and more inclusive HTML. 🎥 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/h7R9dmfIMdU Check out Complete Playlist I’d love to know, what’s one accessibility improvement you’ll add to your next project?  ( 6 min )

Workflow automation tools have become essential for teams looking to reduce manual work, eliminate recurring errors and build systems that scale without becoming chaotic. With so many platforms available, choosing the right tool can feel overwhelming. Each tool has its own logic, pricing model, strengths and limitations. The goal of this guide is to give you a structured and practical analysis of leading workflow automation tools so you can make a clear and confident decision. This guide covers what workflow automation tools are, the eleven most important tools on the market, what they do, their pros and cons, cost expectations and a final recommendation based on realistic use cases. Workflow automation tools handle tasks that would otherwise require repetitive manual effort. They connect …  ( 15 min )

🎮 The Game Concept The game is basically a cooperative Mini Metro: multiple players share the same transit map and have to keep it running as stations spawn across the city. Anyone can draw new train lines, extend existing ones, delete segments, or reroute an entire area if congestion hits. It starts out peaceful. That mix of clarity and chaos is what makes it fun — and multiplayer turns it into a kind of friendly group puzzle where communication becomes the real mechanic. ⚙️ Why I Expected Multiplayer to Be Hard Real-time syncing is normally the hardest part of a project like this. You’ve got: stations spawning at random positions multiple players editing the same network passengers moving every second timers that need to match on every device reconnects that shouldn’t break everything I…  ( 7 min )

On November 18, 2025, a routine change at Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of the web, turned into a nightmare for millions of internet users. Websites ground to a halt, apps failed to load, and error pages popped up like uninvited guests. For over five hours, core parts of the internet felt the ripple effects, from e-commerce sites to developer tools. It wasn't a hacker's plot or a massive cyber assault, as some first feared. Instead, it was a classic case of a small tweak snowballing into chaos due to overlooked limits in the system. In this article, we'll walk through the outage step by step, peering behind the curtain at the tech that failed, why it happened, and what Cloudflare is doing to ensure it doesn't repeat. Drawing from Cloudflare's own detailed postmortem, we'll ke…  ( 10 min )

Stop wasting time on code reviews discussing semicolons and spacing. Automate everything with PR CheckMate. Picture this: It's Monday morning. Your team just opened a pull request. Within minutes, review comments start rolling in: "Please add a semicolon here" Sound familiar? 😅 Developers end up spending time on mechanical tasks instead of solving real problems. The review process slows down. People get frustrated. And the worst part? These issues are completely preventable. Consider what happens in a typical day: Developer writes a feature → pushes code Reviewer notices formatting issues → requests changes Developer runs Prettier manually → commits again Reviewer finds a typo in documentation → another round Developer fixes it → push again CI/CD pipeline finally runs ESLint → more failur…  ( 10 min )

I was trying to check my Twitter feed (sorry, X), and instead of my usual doom scroll, I got hit with an error message. Then I tried ChatGPT. Error. Spotify? Nope. Even McDonald's self-service kiosks were down. I thought maybe my WiFi was acting up again, but nope—turns out a company called Cloudflare had a pretty bad day, and it took a huge chunk of the internet down with it. Before we get into what went wrong, let me explain what Cloudflare does, because most people have never heard of them, yet they use their services every single day. Think of Cloudflare as the internet's security guard and traffic controller, all rolled into one. When you visit a website, you're not always talking directly to that website's server. Instead, Cloudflare sits in the middle, doing a bunch of important job…  ( 10 min )

1) Executive Summary Enterprise systems have always been two-layered: Humans make decisions Humans & systems execute them But that model doesn’t scale with today’s complexity. There are too many repetitive, high-value tasks that need to be done, monitored, and adapted continuously. A third layer is emerging: Agentic AI. This layer sits between human intent and system execution: Understands context Breaks tasks into steps Triggers APIs, tools, and workflows Learns from outcomes Operates continuously Yet most frameworks holding up this new middle layer were not built for scale. In fact: 83% of AI teams report stability issues under load with current frameworks. ~29% of long-running workflows fail silently. Top enterprise concerns include cyberse…  ( 11 min )

Hey there! 👋🏻 Just used the "Generate Image" function of Dev to generate this cover, and yes, I know it says C 14 rather than C# 14. If you've written C# code before, there's a good chance you've come across extension methods. They've been around since C# 3.0 back in 2007, and they're pretty much everywhere in .NET—especially in LINQ. But with C# 14 and .NET 10, things just got a whole lot more interesting with the introduction of Extension Blocks, or as some folks call it, Extension Everything. So what are extension blocks? Why should you care? And how can you use them to write cleaner, more expressive code? Let's dive in and find out! The code examples in this article require .NET 10 and C# 14, which were officially released on November 11, 2025. If you haven't already installed .N…  ( 14 min )

In technical work — from vehicle maintenance to system calibration — trust is not a slogan; it’s the measurable result of process clarity. Repairs are not isolated events; they’re moments within the life cycle of a system. Each diagnostic phase is a loop of information — sensors, logic, and human interpretation forming a shared language between the machine and its operator. Modern vehicles integrate turbocharging, CVT calibration, and coolant‑flow management as interdependent behaviors rather than separate modules. Only by understanding how temperature, pressure, and control logic interact do we achieve precision and stability. Just like in software systems, transparency in design creates predictability. A reliable engine behaves not by chance, but by calibration integrity, thermal balance, and disciplined maintenance cycles. Engineering trust means achieving consistency through comprehension — not marketing. It’s where physics meets ethics in the practice of mechanics.  ( 6 min )

MP 1.300/2025: Entenda os Prazos e Custos para Retornar ao Mercado Cativo Você migrou para o mercado livre de energia esperando economizar, mas agora está pensando em voltar? Ou talvez esteja considerando essa mudança e quer saber se consegue retornar sem problemas. A boa notícia é que sim, é possível retornar ao mercado cativo — mas a MP 1.300/2025 estabelece regras específicas que você precisa conhecer antes de tomar essa decisão. Neste guia prático, vou desvendar os prazos mínimos, custos envolvidos e tudo o que você precisa saber para planejar esse movimento com segurança. Vamos lá? A Medida Provisória 1.300/2025, publicada em 21 de maio de 2025, é um marco regulatório que estabelece as diretrizes para a abertura total do mercado livre de energia no Brasil. Mas seu impacto vai além: …  ( 11 min )

Shopify’s default contact form is simple and easy to use, but it does not always meet the needs of growing businesses. For developers, theme customizers, and tech-savvy store owners, building a custom contact form offers more flexibility. One powerful enhancement is sending form submissions directly into the Shopify Customer Notes field, helping teams centralize important customer interactions inside the Shopify admin. This approach is especially helpful when you want your support, sales, or onboarding team to see customer context without switching between tools. This guide walks through how to build a custom contact form and programmatically store the submitted data into Shopify customer notes. Storing from data inside the customer profile gives you several benefit. All customer messages…  ( 8 min )

For teams looking to "truly harden" their iOS applications, the challenge is not about finding the "most magical" tool, but rather selecting a tool combination suited to their delivery model and operational capabilities, and turning hardening into a reusable engineering capability. This article avoids flashy marketing and instead, from an engineering practice perspective, compares several common types of IPA encryption/obfuscation tools in terms of capabilities, pros and cons, and applicable scenarios, providing implementation recommendations and typical pipelines for direct reference by development/security/operations teams. Tool selection depends on several dimensions: Access to Source Code: If source code is available, prioritize compile-time obfuscation (deeper protection); if not, onl…  ( 9 min )

We’ve all been there. You spend three days fighting a complex race condition or architecting a beautiful, scalable microservice. You finally solve it, and the dopamine hits. You think, "I need to document this," so you open your markdown editor, write a quick tutorial, and hit publish. We know that spaghetti code works, but it’s a nightmare to maintain and read. The same logic applies to technical writing. Here is the good news: You don't need to be a marketer to get this right. SEO is just algorithms and logic. DOM Structure: You already understand that H1 is the parent and H2 is the child. That’s 90% of on-page SEO. User Intent: This is just "User Stories." What is the user trying to achieve when they type "React useEffect loop" into the search bar? Efficiency: We like clean code; Google…  ( 8 min )

(This is the first article in our three-part series on protocol security.) In smart contract auditing, automated tools like Slither or Aderyn are an essential first line of defence. They are excellent at finding known anti-patterns: re-entrancy, incorrect visibility, or known unsafe operations. However, the most catastrophic vulnerabilities—the ones that automated tools cannot find—are almost always flaws in the protocol's unique business logic. These are bugs that arise not from a single bad line of code, but from a "correct" implementation of a flawed assumption. Finding these requires an expert, adversarial, and creative manual review process. You must understand what the code intends to do, and then find a way to break that intention. This article shares three real, subtle, and high-im…  ( 11 min )

When working with Excel files, it's common to encounter two primary formats: .xls and .xlsx. The .xls format is used by older versions of Excel, while .xlsx is the default format for Excel 2007 and later. Converting between these formats is often necessary, whether you're upgrading legacy files or ensuring compatibility with different systems. In this article, we'll explore how to convert Excel files from .xls to .xlsx and vice versa using Java. This guide is suitable for developers who need an efficient, reliable solution for handling Excel files programmatically. Before diving into the conversion process, let's briefly discuss why you might need to convert an .xls file to .xlsx. The newer .xlsx format has several advantages over .xls: Smaller file sizes : The .xlsx format uses ZIP compre…  ( 8 min )

I. Interface Overview: The YiwuGo Product Details API allows developers to retrieve detailed product information via product ID (num_iid), including comprehensive data such as title, price, inventory, sales volume, images, description, and SKU. This interface adopts a RESTful design, supports real-time data updates and high-concurrency requests, and is suitable for e-commerce application development, data analysis, price monitoring, and other scenarios. II. Interface Parameters: YiwuGo provides a Product Details API interface, mainly including: Core Functions: Supports retrieving basic product information (title, price, inventory), SKU specifications, description, reviews, etc. Provides logistics information (shipping location, postage), product images, and detailed specifications. Supports field filtering to optimize transmission efficiency. Call Flow: Registration and Authentication: c0b.cc/R4rbK2, click to get a test key. or add wechat id：19970108018 Sending Requests: Calls the API via HTTP GET/POST and parses the returned JSON data. In conclusion, the YiwuGo product details API provides developers with a standardized and efficient solution for acquiring product data, supporting diverse needs from basic information to in-depth analysis. It is an important tool for e-commerce business development and operation.  ( 6 min )

🚀 Introducing eXo Platform 7.1: A More Intuitive, Open-Source Digital Workplace for Developers & Teams Wassim Zlitni ・ Nov 20 #opensource #java #productivity #sharepoint  ( 6 min )

used to make the same mistake with every new freelance client. We would sign the contract (sometimes), shake hands, and I would immediately open VS Code. I was eager to impress. I wanted to show progress. Big mistake. Three days later, I’d be blocked. "Hey, I still need the AWS keys." "Can you invite me to the GitHub repo?" "Wait, you wanted this in React Native or Flutter?" I was losing billable hours chasing administrative details. It felt unprofessional, and worse, it delayed my payments. So, I stopped coding on Day 1. Instead, I built an Onboarding Protocol. Here is the system I use now to go from "Signed" to "Shipping" without the headache. Phase 1: The Handshake (Administrative) Signed Contract: Emails are not contracts. Use a proper e-signature tool. Deposit Cleared: Don't trust the screenshot of the transfer. Trust the notification from your own bank. Communication Policy: Establish boundaries now. If you don't want WhatsApp messages at 10 PM on a Sunday, tell them now. Phase 2: The Keys (Access) Repo Access: Ensure you have 'Write' or 'Admin' access. 'Read' access is useless for a developer. Design Files: Ask for 'Edit' access in Figma so you can actually export the assets you need. Environment Variables: Ask for the .env file immediately. If they don't have one, offer to set it up (as a billable task). Phase 3: The Alignment (Technical) Node/PHP Versions: Agree on the exact version (e.g., Node 20, PHP 8.2). Package Manager: Are we using npm, yarn, or pnpm? Mixing these causes lockfile chaos. Linter Rules: Agree on a standard (ESLint/Prettier) before you push your first commit. Why this matters Want the full list? It includes the full 3-Phase breakdown, printable PDF, and a Notion template you can duplicate for every new client. I'm selling it for $1 (basically free) because I want to help other devs professionalize their business. 👉 Grab the Ironclad Checklist here  ( 7 min )

If you’re building FastAPI applications with MongoDB, you’ve probably wished for a quick way to visualize and manage your database without writing custom admin endpoints. Today, I’m excited to introduce you to fastapi-mongo-admin — a game-changing package that brings Django-style admin functionality to the FastAPI + MongoDB stack. As developers, we often find ourselves rebuilding the same CRUD interfaces over and over. While Django has its admin panel and tools like Retool exist, the FastAPI ecosystem has lacked a native, lightweight solution for MongoDB — until now. fastapi-mongo-admin bridges this gap with: Automatic CRUD API generation A beautiful, production-ready admin UI Zero-config setup (literally 5 lines of code) Full Pydantic v2 support Multi-language support (over 7 languages!)…  ( 8 min )

Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt crack open John Hughes’s iconic 1985 flick Weird Science on this Rewatchables episode, dishing on the film’s wild mix of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll—and yes, chips, dips, chains and whips—while celebrating Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith’s unforgettable performances. Produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, this romp is brought to you (quite literally) by State Farm’s Personal Price Plan®, and you can catch more Ringer deep dives by subscribing on YouTube and following @ringer across socials. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Sean and Amanda wrap up their yearlong countdown of the 25 best 21st-century films by slotting Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds at No. 4, arguing it outshines Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as his ultimate crowd-pleaser. They gush over Christoph Waltz’s scene-stealing turn as Hans Landa and dig into how the movie’s audacious storytelling, dark humor, and pulse-pounding finish have cemented its place as a modern classic. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Summary Cinemasins revisits 1978’s The Wiz, counting down every plot hole, cringe moment, and guilty pleasure in a rapid-fire “Everything Wrong With” style now that Wicked is back on the big screen. They pepper the video with their signature snark and encourage viewers to explore more content on Cinemasins.com, follow them across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, join their Discord and Reddit communities, fill out a viewer poll, or support them on Patreon. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

eXo Platform has just released version 7.1, building on last year’s major technical overhaul in 7.0. 🔧 What’s New in eXo Platform 7.1? A More Modern & Intuitive User Experience Version 7.1 focuses strongly on usability and daily efficiency: Documents→ new thumbnail & tree views, drag-and-drop folder import, offline mode, and network drive support. Productivity→ customizable personal workspace, enhanced unified search, and a redesigned App Center. Chat (Matrix-based) → message replies, reactions, voice messages, sound/push notifications, and full-screen mode. Engagement → forum-style activity feeds, decentralized engagement campaigns, and gamification widgets. 🧱 A Fully Updated, Developer-Friendly Tech Stack JDK 21 Tomcat 10 Spring 6 & Spring Boot 3.1 Elasticsearch 8.14 OnlyOffic…  ( 7 min )

I. Interface Overview The Alibaba Product Details API allows developers to retrieve detailed product information via product ID (num_iid), including comprehensive data such as title, price, inventory, sales volume, images, description, and SKU. This interface adopts a RESTful design, supports real-time data updates and high-concurrency requests, and is suitable for e-commerce application development, data analysis, price monitoring, and other scenarios. II. Interface Parameters: Alibaba provides a Product Details API interface, which mainly includes: Core Functions Supports retrieving basic product information (title, price, inventory), SKU specifications, description, reviews, etc. Provides logistics information (shipping location, postage), product images, and detailed specifications. Supports field filtering to optimize transmission efficiency. Call Flow Registration and Authentication: c0b.cc/R4rbK2, click to get a test key. or add wechat id:19970108018 Sending Requests: Calls the API via HTTP GET/POST and parses the returned JSON data. In conclusion, Alibaba's product details API provides developers with a standardized and efficient solution for acquiring product data, supporting diverse needs from basic information to in-depth analysis. It is an important tool for e-commerce business development and operation.  ( 6 min )

I just wrote a quick deep dive on how I built this four-step onboarding layout. Nothing fancy - just a clear walkthrough you can drop into your own projects. Check it out if you're curious. Read the article and get the code. https://lexingtonthemes.com/blog/how-to-build-a-responsive-four-step-onboarding-section-with-tailwind-css  ( 6 min )

I. Interface Overview Pinduoduo's Product Details API allows developers to retrieve detailed product information via product ID (num_iid), including comprehensive data such as title, price, inventory, sales volume, images, description, and SKU. This interface adopts a RESTful design, supports real-time data updates and high-concurrency requests, and is suitable for e-commerce application development, data analysis, price monitoring, and other scenarios. II. Interface Parameters: Pinduoduo provides a Product Details API interface, which mainly includes: Core Functions Supports retrieving basic product information (title, price, inventory), SKU specifications, description, reviews, etc. Provides logistics information (shipping location, postage), product images, and detailed specifications. Supports field filtering to optimize transmission efficiency. Call Flow Registration and Authentication: c0b.cc/R4rbK2, click to get a test key.or add wechat id:19970108018 . Sending Requests: Calls the API via HTTP GET/POST and parses the returned JSON data. In conclusion, Pinduoduo's product details API provides developers with a standardized and efficient solution for acquiring product data, supporting diverse needs from basic information to in-depth analysis. It is an important tool for e-commerce business development and operation.  ( 6 min )

Overview Discover the Mikrotik RB952Ui-5ac2nD: A Versatile Dual-Band Wi-Fi Solution for Small Networks In today's fast-paced digital world, reliable internet connectivity is crucial for both personal and professional environments. Whether you're setting up a home office, a small business network, or simply enhancing your home internet experience, the right router can make all the difference. Enter the Mikrotik RB952Ui-5ac2nD, a compact and efficient dual-band Wi-Fi router designed specifically for small networks. The Mikrotik RB952Ui-5ac2nD, also known as the hAP ac lite, is a testament to how good things can come in small packages. Its compact design makes it an ideal choice for environments with limited space, while its robust features ensure that users do not have to compro…  ( 8 min )

How to Fix "App Not Installed" Error on Android: Complete Troubleshooting Guide Meta Description: Learn how to fix the "App Not Installed" error on Android. Step-by-step guide covering APK installation failed errors, package appears invalid, and all common solutions. The "app not installed as package appears to be invalid" error is one of the most common Android APK installation problems users face. This comprehensive guide walks you through every solution, from basic fixes to advanced troubleshooting techniques. Android displays the "app not installed" error when the package installer stopped working or encounters issues during the installation process. Common causes include: Insufficient storage space on your device Conflicting app signatures from previous installations Corrupted or in…  ( 9 min )

Over the past year we’ve been working on WNode Cloud, an experiment in simplifying the modern web stack. The idea is to see whether a web app can be developed and deployed without a build system — no Webpack, no Babel, no bundlers — just standard JavaScript executed as-is. Some core design choices: True component architecture (model, view, controller, and styling encapsulated and colocated in one file) Views written in plain JavaScript (no template language) Zero-config cloud deployment tied directly to your codebase We recorded a 45-second demo showing a functional app deployed in under 15 seconds: Watch demo Dependency Management: Client-side code works with native ES modules or classic -based libraries. Production Optimization: No minification or tree-shaking is performed. Instead, WNode only delivers the components required for the current page, rather than sending the entire application bundle. Browser Support: modern browsers only; no IE/legacy support. Performance for Large Apps: For each page, WNode maintains a context window containing only the components required for that page, rather than the entire application. This approach helps improve performance for large apps by keeping dependency graphs small and focused. I’d love to hear thoughts from the community.  ( 6 min )

I recently read and shared You’re Wasting Time in Java Without These 10 Libraries. I commented on it a bit in my newsletter, but given the amount and intensity of reactions, I think a full-blown post is in order. The referenced libraries are: Project Lombok MapStruct JUnit 5 & Mockito SLF4J with Logback Apache Commons Lang & Google Guava Jackson Hibernate Validator Spring Framework Apache HttpClient / OkHttp Liquibase or Flyway Project Lombok is a java library that automatically plugs into your editor and build tools, spicing up your java. Never write another getter or equals method again, with one annotation your class has a fully featured builder, Automate your logging variables, and much more. -- Project Lombok I remember discovering Lombok: I was awestruck. It fixed many of the Java la…  ( 11 min )

Carbone is a templating engine designed to generate dynamic documents (PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, etc.) by merging templates with JSON data: The JSON Data-set coming from your application, database, or API. The template must be designed using a Text Editor like Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs. To inject the content dynamically you must write Tags (a.k.a. placeholder), it will be replaced with the corresponding values from the JSON data. Carbone’s tag syntax offers a lot of possibilities! This article focuses on the essentials, but if you want to dive deeper or see more examples, check out the official documentation. The placeholder tag injects the value of a property from the root of the JSON data object (d). It is the simplest way to insert dynamic data into your template. For instance, i…  ( 14 min )

Artificial intelligence has entered a new era. Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini 3, its latest AI model designed not just to process information, but to act as a true partner for developers. With enhanced reasoning, agentic coding, and multimodal understanding, Gemini 3 is tailored to help you learn, build, and plan complex projects with unprecedented efficiency. In this article, we’ll break down what Gemini 3 offers for developers, including Deep Think mode, Google Antigravity, DeepDocs integration, and actionable ways to leverage these tools in your workflow. Gemini 3 Pro sets a new benchmark in AI reasoning. Compared to its predecessor, Gemini 2.5 Pro, it delivers dramatic improvements across multiple metrics: LMArena Leaderboard: 1501 Elo Humanity’s Last Exam: 37.5% without tools GP…  ( 15 min )

WTF is this: Decoding the Mystery of Distributed Deno Ah, the elusive Distributed Deno – sounds like a secret agent, right? But, in reality, it's a tech concept that's been gaining traction, leaving many of us scratching our heads. Don't worry; I'm here to break it down in simple terms, so you can impress your friends with your newfound knowledge. Distributed Deno, in a nutshell, is a way of running applications across multiple machines, rather than just one. Imagine you're playing a game on your computer, but instead of using just your computer's resources, you're using the resources of your friend's computer, your neighbor's computer, and even the computer of that one cousin you barely talk to. It's like a team effort, where each computer works together to make the game run smoother, f…  ( 12 min )

Foreword As backend developers, we are certainly familiar with Nginx. It is the absolute dominator of reverse proxies and load balancing. However, have you encountered this scenario: your business is in a rapid iteration phase, backend service nodes change frequently, or you need to perform canary releases. Every time you adjust the Upstream servers, you have to modify nginx.conf and then carefully execute nginx -s reload. Although Nginx has powerful performance, its configuration management can feel slightly "heavy" in certain dynamic scenarios (while Nginx Plus supports dynamic APIs, that is a paid feature; Lua scripts can also achieve this, but maintenance costs are high). If you are a Go developer and are currently using the Gin framework, you can completely "embed" reverse proxy cap…  ( 10 min )

I. Interface Overview The Taobao Product Details API allows developers to retrieve detailed product information via product ID (num_iid), including comprehensive data such as title, price, inventory, sales volume, images, description, and SKU. This interface adopts a RESTful design, supports real-time data updates and high-concurrency requests, and is suitable for e-commerce application development, data analysis, price monitoring, and other scenarios. II. Interface Parameters: Taobao provides a Product Details API interface, which mainly includes: Core Functions Supports retrieving basic product information (title, price, inventory), SKU specifications, description, reviews, etc. Provides logistics information (shipping location, postage), product images, and detailed specifications. Supports field filtering to optimize transmission efficiency. Call Flow Registration and Authentication: c0b.cc/R4rbK2, click to get a test key. or add wechat id:19970108018 . Sending Requests: Calls the API via HTTP GET/POST and parses the returned JSON data. In conclusion, Taobao's product details API provides developers with a standardized and efficient solution for acquiring product data, supporting diverse needs from basic information to in-depth analysis. It is an important tool for e-commerce business development and operation.  ( 6 min )

Short answer: you can make an old washing machine “smart” with a Raspberry Pi 4, but you should not try to replace its internal controller or directly wire GPIO into mains. The safe way is to treat the machine as a black box and let the Pi monitor and optionally “press buttons” or switch power from the outside. I’ll give you a practical, but safety-conscious roadmap. 1. Decide what “make it work with Pi” means Typical goals: Get notifications (cycle finished, machine running or idle). Monitor energy/use (when it runs, how long, maybe power draw). Remote control start/stop (within reason). Home-automation integration (Home Assistant, Node-RED, etc.). If you say which of these you care about most, we can go deeper. For now I’ll assume: monitor + maybe remote start. 2. Safest approach: treat…  ( 9 min )

For decades, the software industry has repeated the mantra KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. But somewhere along the way, we stopped practicing it. Today, we design systems that are far more complex than the problems they try to solve. We pile abstraction upon abstraction, create layers upon layers, and split systems into dozens of microservices long before the business even knows what it needs. And then we wonder why software is difficult to change, expensive to maintain, and resistant to adaptation. This article argues something uncomfortable but important: Modern software engineering has drifted away from simplicity — and the price we pay is adaptability. Let’s bring KISS back into focus, not as a nostalgic slogan, but as a practical strategy for building resilient, maintainable systems.…  ( 9 min )

"It works on my machine." Every developer knows this phrase. I had just finished building a Water Quality Prediction system using Python, Flask, and Docker. It was running perfectly on my laptop. I could send a curl request to localhost:5000 and get a prediction back instantly. But "localhost" doesn't help the world. If I wanted this model to actually be useful—perhaps as a backend for a mobile app or an IoT river monitoring system—I needed a public URL. In this post, I’ll walk through the final (and surprisingly easiest) step of my project: deploying a Dockerized Flask app to the cloud using Render. Before we jump into the cloud, here is a quick snapshot of what I built: The Brain: A Random Forest Classifier trained to predict water quality classes (0, 1, 2). The Body: A Flask API that ac…  ( 8 min )

If you follow* Matka regularly*, you already know how unpredictable the game can feel. Some days numbers flow in familiar patterns, and other days the entire chart behaves differently. What helps most is clarity — understanding combinations, reading daily updates, and using predictions responsibly rather than emotionally. In this guide, we break down four simple elements players rely on every day to stay informed and make calculated decisions: double pana patterns, live results, open numbers, and practical prediction habits. Many players start their analysis with matka double pana Live results are another important part of daily decision-making. Anyone who checks the game regularly understands that speed and accuracy matter. The moment a result drops, experienced players compare it with ea…  ( 8 min )

‘Weird Science’ Rewatchables Breakdown Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive headfirst into John Hughes’s 1985 cult classic Weird Science, unpacking everything from its teen-tinged rock ’n’ roll vibes to memorable moments with Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. It’s your classic Ringer Rewatchables episode—expect plenty of laughs, nostalgia and cheeky commentary on the movie’s wild style. Produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, this episode is proudly sponsored by State Farm’s Personal Price Plan®. Catch it on The Ringer-Verse YouTube channel or the Bill Simmons channel, and don’t forget to subscribe for more movie deep dives! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 4 – Inglourious Basterds Sean and Amanda dive into their yearlong countdown, hailing Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds as the more thrilling pick over Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. They break down what makes this WWII romp one of the standout cinema experiences of the century. From Christoph Waltz’s unforgettable turn to the film’s lasting impact on both war movies and Tarantino’s legacy, they unpack why Basterds still packs a punch and earns its spot at number four. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With The Wiz In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins takes us back down the yellow brick road with a rapid-fire sin count of the classic 1978 musical, spurred on by Wicked’s return to theaters. Expect their trademark blend of nitpicks, snark, and a fresh look at whether The Wiz actually holds up better than you remember. Along the way they drop links to all their channels—CinemaSins, TVSins, CommercialSins, the Podcast Network—plus Discord, Reddit, social media, a quick poll, and a Patreon pitch for fans hungry for more sinful fun. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Tutorial: Building a .NET 9 Console App with Hangfire and Channels Overview In this tutorial, you will build a .NET 8 console application that: Polls data from an API, or simulates it Uses System.Threading.Channels for producer consumer messaging Runs background tasks using Hosted Services Enqueues jobs in Hangfire using in memory storage Traditional producer consumer patterns often rely on BlockingCollection or custom queues, which can introduce: Thread contention Blocking calls Complex synchronization System.Threading.Channels provides: Asynchronous, non blocking communication between producers and consumers Built in backpressure when using bounded channels High performance with low allocation In this app: DataPollingService is the producer, it writes work items into the ch…  ( 10 min )

Target: Developer Node.js & Laravel Infrastruktur: Shared Hosting (Hostinger, Qwords, Niagahoster, dll) Tujuan: Mencegah domain terblokir akibat pengiriman ke email sampah/mati. Sebelum menyentuh kodingan, Anda wajib memastikan "SIM" (Surat Izin Mengemudi) email domain Anda valid. Tanpa ini, email Anda akan masuk Spam atau ditolak, sebagus apapun kodenya. Masuk ke hPanel (Hostinger) atau cPanel (Qwords) Anda. Cari menu "Email Deliverability" atau "DNS Zone Editor". Pastikan record berikut ada dan aktif: Jenis Record Nama (Host) Value (Contoh) Fungsi TXT (SPF) @ v=spf1 include:_spf.mail.hostinger.com ~all Memberi izin server hosting mengirim email. TXT (DKIM) default._domainkey (Kode panjang acak dari hosting) Tanda tangan digital anti-pemalsuan. Penting: Jika status SPF/DKIM …  ( 9 min )

Do you write in C or C++ and want to analyze code regardless of the build system? Today, we'll explain how to use PVS-Studio static analyzer and plugin for Visual Studio Code on Windows. Do you write in C or C++ and want to analyze code regardless of the build system? C/C++ code can be used for different purposes that require their own build systems. For example, embedded development relies on specific compilers and build systems. Sometimes, you can encounter a whole "zoo" of custom build scripts and suddenly realize that the previous "zookeeper" has resigned last year. However, you decide that you still want to analyze such code (somehow), but you don't have any desire to understand the fragile and incomprehensible build system. What can you do? Actually, there's a solution! The analyz…  ( 12 min )

757. Set Intersection Size At Least Two Difficulty: Hard Topics: Array, Greedy, Sorting, Weekly Contest 65 You are given a 2D integer array intervals where intervals[i] = [startᵢ, endᵢ] represents all the integers from startᵢ to endᵢ inclusively. A containing set is an array nums where each interval from intervals has at least two integers in nums. For example, if intervals = [[1,3], [3,7], [8,9]], then [1,2,4,7,8,9] and [2,3,4,8,9] are containing sets. Return the minimum possible size of a containing set. Example 1: Input: intervals = [[1,3],[3,7],[8,9]] Output: 5 Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4, 8, 9]. It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 4. Example 2: Input: intervals = [[1,3],[1,4],[2,5],[3,5]] Output: 3 Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4]. It can be sho…  ( 38 min )

Will AI agents replace SaaS? Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are revolutionizing SaaS platforms in 2025, driving automation, intelligence, and scale. But will AI agents replace SaaS? The answer is no. Instead, AI agents are becoming essential extensions of SaaS, automating repetitive workflows that once slowed teams and killed margins. Without AI agent integration for key tasks like support triage or lead qualification, your SaaS platform risks losing the efficiency edge to competitors. With API call costs dropping to as low as $0.001 and mature platforms like OpenAI, n8n, Make.com, and Zapier offering plug-and-play AI integrations, embedding AI-powered automation is both affordable and impactful. According to data from Aalpha.net, you can automate hours of manual work per week for th…  ( 15 min )

When Sundar Pichai Issued the Warning Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai recently said something that shook the industry: “No company is immune if the AI bubble bursts.” For two years, companies have raced into AI: Massive investments Fear of missing out Pressure to add AI everywhere Unrealistic expectations about returns Yet even Google — a global AI leader — is uncertain about ROI. Google revealed it increased its AI infrastructure spending from: $30B → $90B in one cycle. If Google is unsure whether its AI investment will pay off… What does that mean for the rest of the market? Google’s Gemini File Search disrupted the entire RAG ecosystem. In a single update, it replaced two years of “best practices”: Vector databases Chunking and embeddings Retrieval logic Custom RAG pipelines AI…  ( 8 min )

I don't have any bitcoin myself, but still find the idea of the blockchain and "public shared money" fascinating. And as it turns out, there is a free and open-source bitcoin wallet, created with JavaFX, that wants to help people understand how the Bitcoin system works, and make transactions easy to understand. Thanks to the work of Craig Raw, there is an easy-to-use desktop application to create and manage wallets. And while he explains the app itself, we also learn a lot about the Bitcoin ecosystem, reproducible builds, security, hardware wallets, and more! About Craig Craig Raw is the creator of the Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet. He lives in South Africa. Funny fact: in the video, you can hear that he is surrounded by birds who wanted to join the conversation. Craig loves Java a…  ( 10 min )

If you build React apps with Mantine UI), you already value clarity, consistency, and speed. JsonTree continues that tradition: it renders any JavaScript value—primitives, arrays, and objects—into an interactive tree with minimal effort. Drop it in, point it to data, and you’re done. When you need more, it offers clean extension points and Mantine-friendly styling. A lightweight, flexible tree viewer for strings, numbers, booleans, nulls, arrays, and objects—built for Mantine UI, with zero configuration and rich customization when you need it. Works with any value: string, number, boolean, null, array, object. Instant visibility: expand/collapse nodes to navigate complex payloads. Mantine-first: designed to fit your theme, typography, spacing, and dark mode. Zero-config by default; composable when you need control. import { JsonTree } from “@gfazioli/mantine-json-tree”; import { data } from ‘./data’; function Demo() { return ; } API response debugging: Quickly explore fetched JSON without switching tools. Admin interfaces: Render configuration blobs, feature flags, or audit objects. Developer tools: Embed a live inspector during development or in internal dashboards. Education/demo pages: Show data shapes and changes clearly for tutorials and onboarding. Video You can watch More video Happy building!  ( 6 min )

Introduction Angular PDF libraries provide a powerful set of features that enable developers to create, display, and manipulate PDF documents, which include an Angular PDF viewer/editor, directly within an Angular application. Which helps us to create PDF files, being a common format for reports, invoices, forms, and downloadable content, their implementation has become an indispensable part of today's web development. Since Angular is first and foremost a frontend framework running in the browser, heavy file operations are not natively supported. The developers use third-party PDF libraries designed to run efficiently either on the client or server to meet the needs of users. With the use of PDF libraries, developers achieve various tasks like HTML to PDF conversion, PDF viewing, PDF an…  ( 10 min )

Good commit messages are important for improving collaboration, speeding up debugging, documenting a project's history, and simplifying code reviews. But sometimes we make typos in our commit messages because we are, for now, human. Sometimes the message we wrote isn't clear or detailed enough. In any case, sometimes we want to change the message we wrote for a commit. In this post, we'll go over two simple ways to change a commit message to make it clearer, more organized, more accurate, correct, etc. For example, you might want to change: # Vague message fix bug # To something more descriptive Resolve null pointer exception in user login validation We want to fix the message of the last commit we made. The command git commit --amend allows us to change the last commit. Make sure there…  ( 8 min )

Timothy was debugging a data processing function that wasn't working correctly. "Margaret, I added decorators to validate the data and log the results, but I'm getting validation errors on values that should be fine. Look - the decorators are all here." Margaret examined his code: @validate_result @transform_data @sanitize_input def process_user_data(data): return calculate_score(data) "The decorators are there," Margaret said, "but do you understand the order they execute in?" Timothy blinked. "They... run top to bottom, right? Like the rest of Python?" "That's what everyone thinks at first. But decorators are different. Let me show you what's really happening." "When you stack decorators," Margaret explained, "they execute bottom-to-top, not top-to-bottom. Your sanitize runs first, …  ( 10 min )

Hi everyone! 👋 Have you ever struggled with story points estimation? I definitely have. Those long discussions where everyone throws numbers around... it can be frustrating to settle on a number that actually makes sense. That’s why I built a small web app to help teams make more rational decisions. The tool is super simple: It lets you estimate points based on things like complexity, dependencies, resources, and effort (instead of just guessing). It also gives little hints depending on the points you choose, like whether the story might be too big to tackle or if it could be broken down. I’m not claiming it’s perfect... I just want to share something that is helping me. Maybe it’ll help you too? If you give it a try, I’d love to hear what you think. I’m open to feedback and ideas to make it better! 🚀 Cheers!  ( 6 min )

In today’s fast-moving digital landscape, businesses are generating more visual data than ever before—videos, images, camera feeds, user-generated content, and IoT sensor visuals. But raw visual information alone is not enough. Enterprises now need the ability to interpret and act on visual data in real time, and that’s exactly where Computer Vision Services step in. As AI adoption accelerates across industries, computer vision is becoming one of the most impactful technologies—driving automation, enhancing accuracy, and powering intelligent decision-making. At Oodles, we build end-to-end computer vision solutions that help businesses unlock deeper insights, optimize operations, and introduce intelligent automation at scale. Below is a closer look at how computer vision is transforming ent…  ( 8 min )

The 32-bit version of libgcc_s.so.1 was used on the 64-bit system. uname -a Linux RT-BE88U-A1F0 4.19.294 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 22 22:58:22 CST 2025 aarch64 RT-BE88U_Koolcenter_mod file /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped uname -a Linux OpenWrt 6.6.110 #0 SMP Sun Oct 19 16:37:45 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux file /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 ./libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, no section header  ( 6 min )

Mixing Night with Ken Lewis – FULL MIX NIGHT – 11/12/2025 Join 2-time Grammy winner Ken Lewis for a free monthly livestream where he breaks down the mix bus, shares pro tips honed over 30+ years on 114 Gold & Platinum records, and answers your burning questions on mixing, production, recording, and career development. Watch live as Ken demonstrates the very techniques that power hit records and gets real about the art of crafting great sound. Stick around for giveaways from Session Studio, Sound Radix, and Bettermaker, plus resources like plugin breakdowns, user submission forms, merch, and more. Whether you’re a bedroom producer or a seasoned engineer, Mixing Night is your backstage pass to next-level mixing. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Hashicorp Vault is a secrets management tool. It enables encrypted storage of sensitive data like API credentials, database passwords, certificates and encryption keys. This is managed by flexible plugins called secrets engines. Once activated in a Vault instance, they provide a standard API and CLI access for creation, updating, reading and deleting secrets. This article provides a complete overview to Vault secrets engines. It starts with a general explanation about their plugin implementation, explains the four group of engines, and then lists all engines per group as well as giving a concise tutorial for one specific example engine. The technical context of this article is hashicorp_vault_v.1.20, published 2025-06-25. All provided information and command examples should be valid with n…  ( 16 min )

If you’ve already dipped your toes into TypeScript, you’ve probably met that one feature everyone talks about but no one fully explains at the start. A type alias is basically giving a nickname to a type. A basic explanation? Think of it like giving your WiFi a name. Here’s a simple example from my playground: // type alias type USER = { name: string; contactNo: string; address: { division: string; city: string; }; gender: "male" | "female"; }; const user1: USER = { name: "Mashayeakh", contactNo: "01777", address: { division: "Dhaka", city: "Dhaka" }, gender: "male" }; console.log(user1); 😄 Why I Like Type Aliases When I'm structuring data models, a type alias feels natural. It’s straightforward and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. It just bundl…  ( 8 min )

Last week, I was staring at my latest blog draft, wondering why some sentences just sounded… off. Even though I’d let the AI generate most of it, a few phrases still felt clunky. That’s when I got curious: could I make the AI check itself before I even looked at it? So I started experimenting with self-correcting LLMs—essentially, letting the model generate a draft, detect likely mistakes, suggest fixes, and then pick the best version. At first, I thought it would be simple. Spoiler: it wasn’t. I wrote a tiny loop in Python, just to see what would happen: draft = model.generate(prompt) for i in range(2): errors = detect_errors(draft) if errors: candidates = generate_candidates(draft, errors) draft = select_best_candidate(candidates) The first pass was… messy. The A…  ( 7 min )

Money is a terrible substitute for product market fit. In 2020, Quibi raised $1.75 billion before launch. The company had A-list Hollywood talent, cutting-edge technology, and unlimited marketing budget. Six months later, they shut down completely. The autopsy was simple: no amount of money can compensate for building something nobody wants. This isn’t just about Quibi. It’s about a fundamental truth that Silicon Valley rarely admits: raising venture capital before achieving product market fit is one of the most dangerous mistakes a founder can make. The Five Deadly Dangers of Premature Funding 1. The Growth Pressure Paradox When you take venture money, investors expect rapid growth. But pre-PMF companies don’t need growth — they need patient, methodical iteration. What happens next is pre…  ( 8 min )

When it comes to project automation, build workflows, and DevOps scripting, developers are often torn between Bash scripts and Makefiles. Both have strengths—and knowing when to use each can supercharge your productivity and simplify project onboarding! Bash scripts (.sh files) are imperative and powerful. They let you: Write complex logic, loops, and conditionals easily Use standard shell commands without escaping or special syntax Handle setup, deployments, cron jobs, multi-step automation, and dynamic tasks If you need pure shell power and want your workflow to run everywhere, Bash is your friend. Makefiles shine for build automation. Their unique features: Automatic dependency tracking—rebuild only what's needed Standardized commands (make build, make test) that work across projects Ea…  ( 7 min )

When I first decided to go for a Microsoft system design interview, I was overwhelmed. The sheer scope of designing scalable, maintainable systems felt daunting. So, I turned to a mix of structured online courses and hands-on problem solving—and learned a ton along the way. In this post, I’ll share seven lessons from my journey through Microsoft system design interview prep, focusing heavily on the best system design courses and how to extract maximum value from them. If you’re prepping for Microsoft or any big tech, you’ll find these insights actionable—and grounded in real-world experience. My first mistake? Jumping into generic “system design fundamentals” courses that felt too theoretical. Microsoft interviews emphasize scalability, cloud-native architectures, and fault tolerance tailo…  ( 8 min )

Building tools inside a company helps teams launch apps faster - without blowing the budget on tech upkeep. This way, coders stay productive, businesses move fast, and spending stays under control. In real life, that mix looks like this: Dev teams grab their own setups, roll out updates fast - so they don’t sit around waiting for IT checks or slow sign-offs. It hides the messy parts while pushing changes quickly. Cash flow? Each task, setup or use fits tight budgets. You see, spending now rules keep it in check, and results match what the company gains. When platform engineering firms discuss cutting costs while moving fast, it’s never only about server expenses or how quickly deployments are on their own. They build setups where efficiency ties directly into performance - shaping tools th…  ( 11 min )

QA teams must treat inspection readiness as continuous operational behavior, not a project. Prioritize controlled documentation, robust data integrity controls, rapid access to master records, cross-functional response protocols, supplier/CRO oversight, and evidence of trend analysis and CAPA effectiveness. Recent regulatory trends show more foreign and unannounced inspections, rising “for-cause” activity, and heightened enforcement on data integrity, aseptic control, and supplier oversight, so focus on proactive risk controls, staff training, and technology that supports traceable, auditable decisions. Regulators have shifted inspection strategy in the last 2–3 years: agencies are increasing foreign on-site activity and using unannounced or short-notice visits more frequently, and “for-ca…  ( 13 min )

How to fix the issue of frontmatter.title appearing in VitePress search results instead of the actual content. When you first set up VitePress and use frontmatter to define titles and other metadata for your pages, you may notice that the built-in local search shows the literal template expression used in your Markdown instead of the resolved title. For example, if your page heading uses the $frontmatter template global, the local search index can treat the expression as plain text. Your search results may then show something like {{ $frontmatter.title }} instead of the actual page title. Example Markdown file (docs/markdown-examples.md): --- title: "My Awesome Page" description: "This is an awesome page about VitePress." --- # {{ $frontmatter.title }} {{ $frontmatter.description }} For…  ( 9 min )

Introduction Current RAG systems rely heavily on LLM-driven dynamic planning. same query → different routes small context drift → different cluster summaries debugging becomes guessing reproducibility is poor audit trails show “what happened”, but not “why this route” GraphRAG improves structural traversal, but still depends on non-deterministic reasoning inside the agent layer. Over the past 48 hours, I built a minimal deterministic RAG PoC to explore a simple question: What if we remove LLM planning from the critical path and force RAG to run on This article shares the idea and the PoC — designed as a drop-in, not a re Determinism is not about “reducing creativity”. reproducible debuggable testable auditable stable under load LLMs can still generate summaries and semantics, but the rou…  ( 8 min )

In .NET development, automated processing of Word documents is a common requirement. Deleting paragraphs (such as cleaning up blank paragraphs or removing specific paragraphs) is one of the most frequently used operations. Free Spire.Doc for .NET is a free Word document manipulation component. It enables the creation, editing, and modification of Word documents without relying on Microsoft Word. This article will detail how to use this component to delete Word paragraphs in various scenarios. It is recommended to quickly install Free Spire.Doc for .NET via the NuGet Package Manager: Open your Visual Studio project, right-click the project → select "Manage NuGet Packages"; Enter "Free Spire.Doc" in the search box, find the corresponding package, and click "Install"; After installation, refe…  ( 8 min )

`# محامي جنائي في الكويت: لماذا اختيار المحامي الصحيح قد ينقذ حياتك القانونية؟ في عالم القضايا الجنائية، الأمور لا تتعلق فقط بغرامة أو مخالفة بسيطة… القضية أحيانًا تكون سمعة، مستقبل، حرية، ووضع قانوني كامل. لهذا السبب، وجود محامي جنائي محترف إلى جانبك في أي تحقيق أو اتهام هو أمر أساسي وليس رفاهية. في هذا المقال سنشرح: من هو المحامي الجنائي؟ متى تحتاج إلى محامي قضايا جنائية في الكويت؟ ما الفرق بين محامٍ عادي و محامي جنائي متخصص؟ كيف تبحث عن أفضل محامي جنائي يناسب حالتك؟ ⚠️ تنبيه مهم: هذا المقال للتوضيح العام ولا يُعتبر استشارة قانونية. دائمًا استشر محاميًا مرخصًا قبل أي خطوة. المحامي الجنائي هو محامٍ متخصص في الدفاع عن المتهمين في القضايا المرتبطة بـ قانون الجزاء مثل: الاعتداء السرقة النصب والاحتيال قضايا المخدرات الجرائم الإلكترونية التشهير والتهديد جرائم الأموال في الكويت، الت…  ( 8 min )

Healthcare software is evolving fast. The next real shift will not come from new databases or better dashboards. It will come from intelligence built into the systems themselves. Working at a healthcare software development company, I see it every day. Healthcare teams want their software to think, not just store data. That’s where machine learning comes in. Hospitals, labs, and connected devices generate a flood of data including: Patient records Scans Lab results Wearable data The problem is not collecting it. The problem is making sense of it. ML helps you turn that data into insight. It supports faster decisions, improves patient care, and removes repetitive work. If you build on .NET, the good news is you do not need to start over. You can make your existing apps smarter with …  ( 8 min )

最近、API検索の効率について、ずーっとモヤモヤしていたんです。 大規模プロジェクトや、多人数での共同開発が進むにつれて、APIの数は文字通り「星の数ほど」増えていきますよね。エンジニアがデバッグをする時も、テスターがテストケースを作成する時も、「目的のAPIを探す」という作業は、もはや日常的なルーティンとなっています。 それなのに、実際にターゲットのAPIを見つける作業は、想像以上に骨が折れる作業だと感じています。 例えば、あるプロジェクトで既に数千ものAPIが蓄積されており、命名規則が完全に統一されているわけではないという状況を想定してみましょう。 ある日、「資金決済」に関連する機能を修正する必要が出てきました。しかし、覚えているのは「支払い」「アカウント」「残高」といったキーワードと関係がある、ということだけ。具体的なURL、関数名、モジュール位置は、もう頭から抜け落ちています。 この時、私が行うであろう作業は、多くの場合こんな流れになります。 Postmanなどのツールを開き、APIリストを手動で検索。 キーワードを試しに入力：pay、money、account。 スクロールし、クリックして開き、フィルタリングし、何度も試行錯誤を繰り返す。 そして最終的に見つけたAPI名は/wallet/recharge/apply――完全に予想外の命名。 これは非常によくある状況で、特に以下のような場合に顕著になります。 プロジェクトのAPI量が膨大である。 命名規則が時間経過や開発者の交代によって変化している。 新メンバーが過去のAPI構造に詳しくない。 業務モジュールが複雑で、機能の境界が曖昧。 その結果が、これです。検索効率が低い、共同作業のコストが高い、そして繰り返し無駄な労力を費やす。 Wordのオフライン文書、Postman、あるいはSwagger UIなど、従来…  ( 6 min )

Welcome to Day 40 of the #80DaysOfChallenges journey! This intermediate challenge explores finding Armstrong numbers (also called narcissistic numbers) in a given range, where a number equals the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits. It combines digit extraction via strings, exponentiation, loop-based checking, and a helper function for clean logic, making it a solid exercise in numeric manipulation and conditionals. If you're advancing from basic loops to algorithmic checks or enjoy math-inspired problems, this "Python Armstrong numbers" script demonstrates a function that's efficient for reasonable ranges and easy to extend for larger bounds or optimizations. This task features a core is_armstrong function that verifies a single number, used in a range l…  ( 11 min )

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Daily Tech News Roundup Welcome to today's tech news! We've got a mix of business updates, AI advancements, and even a look at how the future was predicted. Let's dive into the biggest headlines. Monarch Tractor Faces Layoffs, Potential Shutdown Monarch Tractor, known for its electric tractors, is reportedly preparing for layoffs and has warned employees of a possible shutdown. A memo obtained by TechCrunch indicates that the company's pivot away from tractor manufacturing is putting it at financial risk. This highlights the challenges of entering the competitive agricultural technology market. Source Trump Executive Order Could Ban State AI Laws A draft executive order suggests that former President Donald Trump is considering granting the federal government unilateral power over AI regul…  ( 8 min )

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Java can feel like a jungle when you first dive in — tons of concepts, syntax quirks, frameworks, and, well, endless tutorials. I remember staring at my first Java “Hello World” program thinking, Is this it? Spoiler: it’s just the beginning. Over the years, after multiple projects, interviews, and mentoring sessions, I’ve distilled my go-to Java learning roadmap that cut through the noise and actually worked. Whether you’re a total newbie or brushing up for an interview, here are 7 best resources to learn Java—all battle-tested, structured, and full of actionable insights. Java: The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt Why I think this book is the backbone of your Java learning journey This classic book felt like having a mentor by my side. It’s exhaustive, dense, and insanely thorough…  ( 9 min )

A Practical Guide for Developers Who Want Cleaner, Faster, More Reliable Python Code 📌 Table of Contents Introduction 🔹 Introduction Strings, integers, and lists are the first three data types every Python developer encounters — but they remain foundational even for advanced projects. Whether you're writing APIs, processing datasets, building automations, or designing AI workflows, these three data types form the core operations underlying almost everything in Python. This guide focuses on developer-level clarity, real-world use cases, edge cases, and performance details. 🔹 Why These Three Data Types Matter Strings → parsing input, logs, APIs 🧵 Strings What Are Strings? Accessing Characters s = "Python" Slicing print(s[1:4]) # yth String Methods s = "hello world" words = ["fast", "rel…  ( 8 min )

(If you want to think better, write better, and build better with AI) Most people treat prompting like typing random, unstructured, forgettable. Professionals treat prompting like engineering, systematic, documented, and versioned. GitHub isn’t just for code anymore. Here are three GitHub project styles that every serious prompt writer should maintain, no matter your experience level. Your Personal Prompt Library The “Second Brain” of every AI operator. If you want to become world-class at prompting, you need one place where you store: reusable templates reasoning frameworks instruction patterns system prompts debugging templates persona configurations thinking structures writing styles code-refactoring instructions productivity macros This repo becomes a toolbox, memory bank, and accelera…  ( 10 min )

Table of Contents Introduction Why Firefox Extensions Matter Understanding WebExtensions Architecture Setting Up Your Development Environment Anatomy of a Firefox Extension Creating Your First Extension Background Scripts Content Scripts Popup & Options Page UI Messaging and Event Handling Storage and Data Management Permissions and Security Best Practices Intermediate Features Advanced Features Debugging and Troubleshooting Publishing on AMO Common Mistakes Performance Optimization Real-World Example: Text Saver Extension Conclusion Developing a Firefox extension empowers you to customize, automate, and enhance the browsing experience. Unlike traditional web apps, extensions can modify pages in real-time, interact with browser APIs, and provide tools that millions of users can rely on.…  ( 9 min )

NextGen Tools offers a Product Hunt alternative focused on real visibility. Your launch page highlights your title, summary, images, and site link. Visitors browse new tools and support the ones they value. Higher rankings come from real votes. Products in the top 3 that place the badge on their site receive a dofollow link. Founders launch MVPs and full SaaS products. Users view tools across multiple categories. Launch, share, and grow with real engagement. Start here: https://nxgntools.com  ( 6 min )

Summary: Random Password Generation In this article, we will explore a versatile and modular approach to building a password generator in Python. Moving beyond a single script, you will learn how to create multiple specialized functions, each designed for a specific purpose. We will define functions that generate letters-only passwords, numeric PINs, complex punctuation-based keys, standard alphanumeric passwords, and even a fully customizable generator that uses any character set you define. This step-by-step guide Python Password Generator will empower you to understand function definition, default parameters, and the principles of code reusability, providing you with a toolkit of password generation solutions for various security scenarios. import random import string def password_le…  ( 9 min )

Most default code editor themes don’t work for me. As someone with astigmatism, high-contrast or overly saturated themes strain my eyes. I constantly switched themes, but nothing felt right. It wasn’t just about looks, I needed help creating something that was suited my needs for writing code. Many themes either failed WCAG contrast standards or were uncomfortable to read. Creating a custom theme felt daunting, until I started using gen AI to assist me. Using generative AI, I could describe exactly what I needed: "A dark theme with muted backgrounds and soft contrast for string literals." "All elements must pass WCAG AAA minimum contrast." "Avoid yellows and high-saturation colors." In minutes, I had accessible designs tailored to my needs. I wasn’t just editing and fighting through balanc…  ( 8 min )

The All Ordinaries Index, often abbreviated as allords, stands as one of Australia’s longest-established equity benchmarks. It represents a broad overview of the Australian share market, capturing the performance of a large portion of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). While numerous indices exist within the Australian financial landscape, the allords holds a unique place due to its wide coverage, long history, and consistent methodology. Introduced in 1980, the allords was originally created to offer a broad gauge of national market activity. Unlike more concentrated indices that focus on a select group of major firms, this index tracks hundreds of listed entities, making it one of the most comprehensive indicators of Australian equity movements. Its purpose is …  ( 8 min )

Testing AI coding assistants with real-world tasks: ConnectOnion agent framework migration and frontend development Project: github.com/openonion/connectonion I've been coding for 5 hours this morning using Antigravity and Gemini3, and here's my conclusion. First of all, here's my background for your reference: I've been using both Cursor and Claude Code for coding 10 hours per day for 2 years. I've been a machine learning engineer for 7 years, and started writing agents since 2024. ConnectOnion (github.com/openonion/connectonion | docs.connectonion.com) - this agent framework was created by me. I'm a $400 Gemini Ultra user, and also use the Gemini CLI sometimes. And here's my conclusion: Antigravity is better than Cursor - for me, around 20% better. Gemini3 is better than Claude for long-…  ( 8 min )

STN Hackathon 2025 is an exciting upcoming hackathon going to be held on 6th-7th December 2025. It is a 24 hour hackathon expected to be filled with innovation and tech lovers of Nepal. It is an Open theme full stack challenge open to all developers, designers, ai/ml enthusiasts, innovators and tech lovers. It is organized by IT Skills Training Nepal, Putalisadak. Full details: Here You can join as a team of 4 members maximum or you can go solo if you are feeling confident. Registration closes on 4th December, 2025 and limited seats are available so register now to not miss the chance. Talking about the prizes, the prizes include internship opportunities and even job placement so it is very ideal for students looking to start their career. Prizes include: Participants will also have the chance to connect with tech experts and like minded individuals, receive certificates and gain recognition. Beyond the rewards, the hackathon offers a valuable experience in real-world project development and working under tight deadlines. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to challenge yourself, STN Hackathon 2025 is the perfect opportunity to learn, create and grow. For information of all upcoming hackathons and events you can also join Nepvents, the best event discovery platform for tech students in Nepal.  ( 6 min )

If you have been around modern web development for a while, you have definitely heard the term SSR. It feels like one of those concepts that everyone mentions in conversations about performance and user experience. Yet many beginners find it confusing because there are many related ideas like client side rendering, static generation and hydration. This article will give you a simple understanding of what SSR actually is and why it is used. SSR stands for Server Side Rendering. It means that the server prepares the HTML for a page before sending it to the browser. When the user loads your site, they immediately receive a page that already contains the content. In client side rendering the browser loads an empty shell and then JavaScript builds the content. In SSR the user does not wait for …  ( 8 min )

The age of the simple AI "autocomplete" is over. We've entered the era of the Agent-First IDE, and Google's Antigravity is leading the charge. Launched alongside the powerful Gemini 3 model, Antigravity is not just a souped-up VS Code fork; it's a completely new paradigm where AI agents function as autonomous, accountable teammates, operating across your entire development workflow. For the professional software developer, Antigravity shifts your role from line-by-line implementation to high-level architecture and task delegation. It elevates human judgment by automating the tedious execution, fundamentally changing how fast, and how far, a single engineer can build. Antigravity's biggest differentiator is the shift from an AI assistant that only gives suggestions, to an AI Agent that can …  ( 9 min )

The Problem: Turning Ideas into Action is Hard Every founder faces the same painful journey: you have a brilliant startup idea, but translating that vision into a concrete, actionable plan feels overwhelming. You need to research competitors, validate market demand, design architecture, plan features, map user flows, and create a roadmap—all before writing a single line of code. This research and planning phase can take weeks, involve expensive consultants, or result in half-baked specifications that engineers struggle to implement. What if you could compress weeks of work into minutes? MVP Agent is an AI-powered system that transforms a single paragraph describing your startup idea into a complete, production-ready MVP blueprint. It's not just another AI wrapper—it's a sophisticated age…  ( 10 min )

Read the original article：How to Create Interactive UIs with Animation and Transition Effects in ArkUI Introduction In this article, we’ll explore how to use animations in ArkUI through simple yet effective examples. Animations are not just a way to make user interfaces more beautiful — they also bring life and interactivity to apps in the most enjoyable way. HarmonyOS NEXT’s ArkUI framework offers developers a rich and flexible set of animation capabilities to achieve just that. With the aid of animations, you can: Performance Tips & Best Practices 🎯 Keep animations short and meaningful. Long animations can make users feel like they’re waiting. 🚀 Maintain a high FPS (frames per second). Aim for 60FPS whenever possible. Avoid overly complex animations that can cause lag. 🧠 Avoid unnece…  ( 9 min )

As a full-stack developer, I've always believed in giving back to the community that has helped me grow. That's why I created a comprehensive collection of 100% free developer tools that solve real problems we face daily. Tech Stack: Frontend: Next.js 15 with TypeScript Styling: Tailwind CSS with shadcn/ui components Deployment: Netlify with optimized build configuration Performance: Lighthouse scores 90+ across all metrics Architecture: The tools are built as modular React components with a focus on performance and user experience. Each tool is self-contained, works offline, and processes data client-side for privacy and speed. // JSON Formatter Tool - Core Logic interface JSONFormatterState { input: string; output: string; error: string | null; isValid: boolean; } const useJSON…  ( 10 min )

Introduction A journey of a thousand instructions begins with a single bit. Six months ago, I began the Processors and Controllers course—a world where software meets hardware and where code manifests as motion, light, and sound. This isn't just a technical recount; it's about late nights debugging, the thrill of seeing an LED blink for the first time, and the satisfaction of making a stepper motor dance to my code. Month 1-2 was all about learning to think like a machine. The Intel 8086 microprocessor initiated me into low-level programming where every assembly instruction directly molds machine behavior. Key Concepts: Bus Interface Unit (BIU): Manages external bus operations, segment registers, and instruction queue Execution Unit (EU): Arithmetic operations, flags register, and instru…  ( 7 min )

Google Antigravity and .NET 10 : How AI Agents Are Revolutionizing C# Development in 2025 The convergence of Google's agent-first IDE and Microsoft's most powerful .NET release creates unprecedented opportunities for enterprise document processing and AI-driven development On November 18, 2025, Google launched Antigravity alongside Gemini 3, introducing what they call an "agent-first development platform." Just a week earlier, Microsoft released .NET 10 LTS with C# 14, bringing significant performance improvements and language enhancements. For C# developers and CTOs managing enterprise development teams, this convergence represents a fundamental shift in how we build, maintain, and scale .NET applications. As someone who has spent 41 years in programming and currently architects documen…  ( 12 min )

Because most tools abstract the system Tools like: Kubernetes Docker Terraform Cloud providers CI/CD tools …hide the underlying CPU, RAM, storage, network details. So engineers assume: “The platform will manage it; I don’t need to know systems-level details.” That’s WRONG. 2️⃣ Because modern DevOps training is shortcut-based Bootcamps and online courses teach: Docker commands Jenkins pipelines Kubernetes YAML GitHub Actions …but don’t teach: How CPU scheduling works How memory paging or swapping impacts containers How Linux kernel handles disk I/O How networks, subnets, routes, MTU work How disk throughput affects pods So DevOps engineers come out tool operators, not system engineers. 3️⃣ Because many DevOps engineers never operated bare-metal Old-school sysadmins worked with: Physical ser…  ( 7 min )

You can access the code of this chapter in the Kilo-Go github repository in the search branch. Currently your file structure should look something like this: We have now a functional text editor, we could even continue writing the code for this project in it Let's use editorPrompt to implement a minimal search feature. When the user types a search query and presses Enter, we'll loop through the text, and if a row contains the query string, we'll move the cursor there File: utils/constants.go const ( ... KILO_DEFAULT_STATUS_MESSAGE = "HELP: Ctrl-S = save | Ctrl-Q = quit | Ctrl-F = find" ) File: utils/find.go package editor import ( "strings" ) func (e *EditorConfig) editorFind() { query := e.editorPrompt("Search: ") if query == "" { return } for i :=…  ( 9 min )

Parsing PDFs sounds easy until you try parsing bank statements. I learned this the hard way. I spent nearly 2 months building a Chase Bank PDF parser that reaches 99% accuracy across 23 real statements (1,123 transactions total). Meanwhile, generic converters like Tabula or PDFTables only hit ~70% on the same documents. Here’s why Chase PDFs are much harder than you think—and how I solved the problems using TypeScript and pdfjs-dist, with real code you can copy. ⸻ Introduction If you’ve ever worked with U.S. banking data, you know that Chase Bank does something strange: CPAs, bookkeepers, and backend engineers quickly hit a wall when they need 5+ years of historical data. Chase provides those older statements only as PDFs—and the PDFs are absolutely not designed for machine parsing. Most …  ( 12 min )

If you are building an MCP server, every tool you expose needs an inputSchema. MCP servers written with Spring AI support often start with a simple data class for tool inputs. Then come changes: a new field, a renamed property, or updated constraints. The JSON schema in the tool registration rarely keeps up - that means clients may send invalid payloads. By generating the schema from the source of truth — the Java type — you remove that drift. Writing that JSON by hand is repetitive, easy to get wrong. MCP supports only a specific sub-type of the JSON Schema specification. The MCP JSON Schema library keeps the parameter schema and the code in lockstep by generating the MCP-compatible JSON Schema from a Jackson 3 annotated Java class or record. What you get: Use of Jackson 3 annotations for…  ( 7 min )

From Zero to Production in Your Chosen Language BitDT's multi-language support makes it accessible across your entire tech stack. This comprehensive guide walks through implementation strategies for Java, TypeScript, and Python environments. Assessment: When to Use BitDT Ideal Use Cases: · High-volume timestamp storage (databases, logs) Consider Alternatives When: · Human readability is paramount Java Implementation Setup and Integration Option 1: Source Integration git clone https://github.com/Danexcodr/BitDT.git cp -r BitDT/java/src/main/java/danexcodr/time/ your-project/src/main/java/ Option 2: Maven/Gradle Ready Structure Basic Usage Patterns Database Entity Integration @Entity public class Event { @Id private Long id; @Column(length = 15) private String compactTimest…  ( 10 min )

Introduction For patent professionals, the sheer volume of patent filings across jurisdictions can make keyword-only searches unreliable. Terms vary, translations introduce discrepancies, and technical nuances often get missed. This is where using classification in patent search becomes indispensable. Classification systems, such as the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) and International Patent Classification (IPC), categorize patents by technology rather than words, providing a structured approach to identify relevant prior art efficiently. In this article, we explore how to leverage CPC and IPC codes for patentability searches, freedom-to-operate analyses, invalidity assessments, and competitive intelligence. We cover workflows, practical strategies, advanced techniques, and the …  ( 10 min )

Current timekeeping systems reflect historical accidents rather than logical design. The base-60 division of hours and minutes originated from Sumerian finger-counting methods, while our irregular Gregorian calendar stems from Roman political manipulation. This paper proposes "Number Time," a decimal-based temporal system designed to reduce cognitive load, eliminate timezone confusion, and align with natural human rhythms through percentage-based daily measurement, standardized calendar structures, and location-specific sunrise references. The contemporary global timekeeping framework suffers from fundamental inefficiencies rooted in historical contingency. Our 24-hour day divided into 60-minute hours and 60-second minutes exists solely because ancient Sumerians counted using the 12 finger…  ( 13 min )

What is strategy pattern ? Strategy is a behavioral design pattern that lets you define a family of algorithms, put each of them into a separate class, and make their objects interchangeable. Strategy Interface: A common interface or abstract class is defined to represent the algorithm's behavior. Concrete Strategies: Concrete classes implement the strategy interface, providing a specific algorithm or behavior. Each concrete strategy encapsulates a particular way to perform a task. Context: The context is the class that uses a strategy. It holds a reference to a strategy object and delegates the task to it instead of executing the logic itself. The context can be configured with a different strategy object at runtime. Client: The client code is responsible for creating the context and choosing which concrete strategy to pass to it. It helps you: ✔ Remove long if/else or switch blocks Think of a payment service: Without Strategy Pattern → you'd write big conditional logic. With Strategy Pattern → you create a separate “strategy” class for each payment type. Source information SourceCode StrategyPattern Github  ( 6 min )

A type hint: is the label(annotation) which specifies the types for a variable, or function parameter or return value. can be done with one or more types with ':'and with or without '|'. is used with the type checkers such as mypy, pyright, pyre-check, pytype, etc. is optional so it doesn't force the type with error unless type checkers are used. I used mypy --strict for the experiments.     *mypy can be installed with pip install mypy. A type hint can be done with one or more types with ':' and with or without '|' as shown below: *Memo: | can be used from Python 3.10 and typing.Union is still usable: typing.Union can have one or more types. # from typing import Union v: str = 'Hello' # v: Union[str] = 'Hello' # Equivalent v = 23 v = None # Error # from typing import Union v:…  ( 8 min )

So I did an exercise to practice what I learned. I was given three banks' datasets: JPM (JP Morgan), Wells (Wells Fargo) & BAC (Bank of America). These three banks recorded their stock prices at different times due to delay caused by network issues, so their timestamps don’t match exactly. I needed to compare how the prices change across the three banks over time. To do that, I had to first align their times using merge_asof(). What this does is that, it takes a timestamp from JPM, checks to see which timestamp in Wells is closest to it, and then stores the value. I proceed to repeat the same for BAC, and I end up with a lineup of the three banks' logs, where each row has prices taken at almost the same moment. .diff() helps calculate the price changes across the three banks. I plotted these changes to show how each bank's stock price changes over time: Blue line represents JPM From the plot, we can see that: Wells and BAC move more steadily But all three banks show similar rise and fall patterns overall It suggests their price movements are correlated because all big US banks react to similar market forces. For my non-data science audience, you might be asking, kini gbogbo eleyi TL mi?(What's all this on my timeline?). When recording stock prices, different banks often log data at slightly different times. Once the timestamps were aligned, I calculated how much each stock price changed over time. Guess what I found... JPM (blue) is more volatile, swings higher, up and down. The curves for Wells and BAC look similar and smoother. That’s normal, they’re both traditional retail/consumer banks. They respond to: These factors affect them in the same direction, so their returns often move similarly. JPM had the most dramatic ups and downs. Why? Because JPMorgan has: ✔ A massive investment banking division Investment banking stocks naturally move more sharply. This is the End. -SP Day 9 of improving my Data Science skills Sylvester Promise ・ Nov 18 #webdev #ai #career #machinelearning  ( 7 min )

第 24.3 课：币安合约交易操作详解 ⏱ 课时：2.5 小时 🎯 学习目标：掌握币安合约交易的API操作，学会安全地进行杠杆交易 合约交易风险极高，新手请谨慎操作！ 🔴 高风险警告： - 合约交易具有杠杆效应，可能损失全部本金 - 市场剧烈波动可能导致强制平仓 - 资金费率和交易成本较高 - 需要丰富的交易经验和强大的心理素质 📋 适用人群： - 有丰富现货交易经验 - 深刻理解杠杆风险 - 有完善的风险管理策略 - 能承受重大资金损失 💡 建议：先用小资金测试，充分理解机制后再逐步增加 合约交易是加密货币交易的高级形式，通过杠杆可以放大收益，但同时也放大了风险。 本课重点： 杠杆是双刃剑，放大收益的同时也会放大亏损。谨慎使用，严格风控。 本课将详细讲解： 币安合约API的配置和使用 杠杆和保证金管理 合约订单类型和操作 风险管理和资金控制 在币安API管理页面，需要开启以下权限： ✅ 必须开启： □ Enable Reading (读取权限) □ Enable Futures Trading (合约交易权限) ⚠️ 可选开启（谨慎）： □ Enable Margin Trading (杠杆交易权限) ❌ 绝对禁止： □ Enable Withdrawals (提币权限) - 永远不要开启！ # 1. 从现货账户转入资金到合约账户 # 在币安网页版或APP中操作： # 资金 → 划转 → 从现货账户到USDT-M合约账户 # 2. 建议初始资金 # 新手：100-500 USDT # 有经验：1000-5000 USDT # 高级：5000+ USDT { "exchange": { "name": "binance", "key": "${BINANCE_API_KEY}", "secret": "${BINANC…  ( 15 min )

Have you ever wondered why that tiny notification sound has the power to pull our attention like a magnet we never asked to carry? On the subway, in cafés, classrooms, on the street. It's always the same. Ding. Such a small sound, but it pokes at something inside us. It's become one of modern life's strangest habits - instead of turning their phones down, people crank the volume all the way up. And it's not just a setting. It's almost a personality trait, a posture, a way of saying "I'm here." At some point, that tiny sound becomes an extension of who someone is. A kind of digital breath, I guess. Of course, there's biology involved. Dopamine. The moment that sound plays, your brain releases this tiny reward, a little spark. It feels like someone thought of us, reached out, needed us. Afte…  ( 7 min )

What's New in .NET 10 and C# 14: The Enterprise Architect's Guide to WebAssembly as a Parallel Runtime TL;DR: Why This Matters to Every .NET Developer If you're a .NET developer who's been writing C# code for years but haven't been paying attention to the WebAssembly revolution, this article is your wake-up call. .NET 10 (released November 11, 2025) isn't just another incremental update—it's Microsoft's declaration that the browser is now a first-class .NET runtime, sitting alongside your traditional server deployments. Imagine writing your business logic once in C# and having it run everywhere: on your servers at 49% faster speeds than .NET 8, in the browser via WebAssembly with 76% smaller download sizes, on edge devices via WASI, and even in native mobile apps through .NET …  ( 78 min )

Framer Ground: Open-source animated components you can copy directly into React/Next.js projects Key features: ✂️ No npm install needed, just copy and paste the code ⚡ Built with Framer Motion for smooth 60fps animations 🎨 Styled with TailwindCSS, easy to customize 📦 Includes buttons, cards, carousels, galleries, inputs, menus, and navbars 💪 Full TypeScript support 🚀 Works alongside any UI library Check it out if you want to add micro-interactions without building animations from scratch. Similar approach to shadcn/ui but focused purely on animations. 👉 Blog Post 👉 GitHub Repo 👉 Live Demo  ( 6 min )

World Cup 2026: Unpacking Team Performances, Qualifiers, and Match Analysis As we edge closer to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the excitement is palpable. The latest FIFA rankings have revealed the top seeds, leaving us wondering about the prospects of various national teams. In this article, we'll delve into team performances, qualifiers, match analysis, and player insights, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the World Cup 2026 landscape. The qualifying process for the 2026 World Cup has been nothing short of dramatic. With some surprising upsets and impressive comebacks, teams have secured their spots or narrowly missed out. According to worldcup26.app, as of now, the following teams are qualified: Africa: Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia Asia: Australia, Japan, South …  ( 7 min )

I recently contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by implementing External ID support for AwsCustomResource, a feature that enhances security for cross-account AWS operations. The pull request #35252 was merged into the main branch after a comprehensive review process, addressing a critical security gap identified in issue #34018. This article walks through the problem, the solution, and the engineering decisions that went into this contribution. The Problem: Confused Deputy Attacks Consider this scenario: Your Lambda function assumes a role in Account B using sts:AssumeRole An attacker discovers your function's configuration The attacker creates their own resource that tricks your function into assuming a role in their account instead Your function unknowingly performs operati…  ( 10 min )

When every Pod screams for CPU and memory, who decides who lives, who waits, and who gets evicted? Kubernetes isn't just a scheduler — it's a negotiator of fairness and efficiency. This article unpacks how Quality of Service (QoS), Priority Classes, Preemption, and Bin-Packing Scoring come together to keep your cluster stable and fair. ⚙️ The Challenge: Competing Workloads in Shared Clusters When multiple workloads share cluster resources, conflicts are inevitable: High-traffic apps starve lower workloads. Batch jobs hog memory. Pods without limits cause unpredictable evictions. Kubernetes addresses this by applying a layered decision-making model — QoS, Priority, Preemption, and Scoring. 🧭 QoS (Quality of Service): Who Gets Evicted First Each Pod belongs to a QoS class based on CPU and m…  ( 7 min )

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Primer is the foundation that decides how every colour sits, blends, and lasts. Choose the best primer for miniatures and your paint glides, details stay crisp, and varnish protection holds up. Choose badly and you fight chalky texture, clogged recesses, and flaky adhesion. This guide explains types of primer, how they behave on different materials, what colours to pick, and the environmental factors that make or break a smooth coat. If you are looking for practical miniature priming tips, want to understand how a Warhammer model primer behaves on plastic, resin, and metal, and you need a simple checklist to avoid grainy results, you are in the right place. Why Primer Quality Affects Every Stage Of Painting Primer does three vital jobs. It grips the miniature so colour coats do not rub o…  ( 10 min )

Table of Contents Introduction Go Software Enable dependency tracking for your code Go is an open-source programming language developed by Google It was designed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer,and Ken Thompson, and publicly announced in November 2009. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has garbage collection, structural typing It is often referred to as Golang to avoid ambiguity and because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its proper name is Go the gopher : The Go gopher was created by renowned illustrator Renee French. It has become a beloved mascot for the Go brand. The Gopher is a reminder of the approachability and fun that comes with the Go brand and language. Go to the go website and then click on the download button Go can be installed in multiple Operating systems and information given below Its a straight forward installation, just keep click next to complete the installation. Try the below command in the software folder go mod init example/hello go: creating new go.mod: module example/hello Create a file hello.go file package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Hello, World!") } Run your code to see the greeting. go run . Hello, World! References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language) https://go.dev/  ( 6 min )

ideation for web app i generated the ideas for web app with Miro stickies. the Several ideas are written. notes to add revision with red color. notes without thinking integration automatically data analysis, multi step thinking with AI i already built the pipe line to develop full stack app with aws amplify. and as the next step, i wanna prepare basic CRUD function as template for general usage. and i made it. https://github.com/hirookakazuya/20251119_app] each dev folder have storage of 1.2GB and the most of it is in node_modules folder. as chatAI information, this node_module folder can be deleted and restored again with install npm when i use it. i didn't try it. now i' using the cursor. but the limitation of monthly use come. i study which tool i should select for code assistant. for basic use for dev, free ai chat bot is enough like chatGPT, Gemini. in these tool, i don't care about the limitation.  ( 6 min )

AWS CloudFormation is an AWS tool that lets you create and manage cloud resources using code instead of clicking around the console. You describe everything you want - like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, IAM roles, VPCs — in a template file (YAML or JSON), and CloudFormation reads that template and automatically provisions, updates, or deletes those resources for you as a single stack. This makes your infrastructure repeatable, version-controlled, and easier to manage, because you can deploy the same setup to multiple environments (dev, test, prod) with minimal changes, roll back if something fails, and track all infrastructure changes just like you do with application code. Recently, there has been number of improvements in CloudFormation making it much easier to manage infrastructure resourc…  ( 8 min )

Github: namanvashistha/limedb This commit significantly enhances the Text-based User Interface (TUI) for LimeDB, our lightweight, fast, open-source distributed key-value store. The focus is on providing developers with immediate, actionable insights into cluster health and data distribution. Real-time Node Metrics: ClusterStatus widget in the TUI now displays crucial operational metrics for each LimeDB node. These include: CPU Usage: Percentage of system CPU being utilized by the node process. Memory Usage: Amount of JVM memory consumed by the node. Uptime: How long the node process has been running. Latency: Round-trip time to communicate with the node. Why this matters: This provides a quick overview of individual node health, helping identify bottlenecks or unresponsive instance…  ( 7 min )

I remember the predictable rhythm of the Dreamweaver era. Firing up Photoshop, I'd mock up a pristine website layout, slice buttons and images, then export everything into HTML tables or early CSS floats. My process was predictable, my costs quantifiable. A client needed a landing page? "$500," I'd quote. That was 10 hours of design and code at $50/hour, minus a prorated slice of my Adobe subscription. Boom. A local coffee shop needed a brochure site. I'd sketch wireframes on paper (yes, actual paper!), scan them, build the PSD, and meticulously slice the hero image into top/middle/bottom for that stretchy background hack. The equation was simple: Time × Skill = Output. Fast forward to today, and that clean equation has shattered. My workflow now involves prompting Midjourney for a lo…  ( 7 min )

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liner notes: Professional : Pretty good day. Had a few meetings. I responded to some community questions. Spent some time trying to work out some GitHub workflows that I didn't set up. haha It's part of a project I was involved with another person. I worked on the front end application that created the artifact that would then be sent to GitHub and that would kick off some tasks that the person I was working with created to get my artifact ready to be deployed to a platform. Well, the platform is no longer a viable option, so I'm working on refactoring everything to stay of GitHub and use Codespaces instead. The person I worked on this with is no longer at the company, but luckily we did a walk through of everything we worked on and recorded it. I watched it and went through some code to try and jog my memory and also think about how I can make this work. Personal : Last night, instead of coding (I think I was tired from work) I created another version of a 3D model that I've been wanting to remake. I learned some new things in Tinkercad and it helped me accomplish what I wanted. I think I'm going to do some coding. Go through tracks from Bandcamp and for the radio show. How is it Wednesday already?! Pretty much it. Going to eat dinner and get to work. Have a great night! peace piece https://dwane.io / https://HIPHOPandCODE.com  ( 7 min )

Some thoughts on where software engineering is heading Over the past two years, software development has changed in ways that feel significant. These are patterns I'm noticing both in my own work and across the industry. I've been using AI coding tools in personal projects for over two years. The evolution has been clear. It started with copying code from ChatGPT and pasting it into an IDE. Then came tab completion with Cursor and GitHub Copilot, which was helpful but not transformative. The real shift happened when Cursor introduced agentic capabilities, before Copilot had similar features. More recently, I got access to IBM Bob at work, which resembles Cursor 1.X and GitHub Copilot in approach. Most recently, Claude Code with its predominantly agentic workflow has reinforced what seems t…  ( 14 min )

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version of the World Energy Outlook, the annual report that takes stock of the current state…  ( 21 min )

One of the dominant storylines I’ve been following through 2025 is electricity—where and how demand is going up, how much it costs, and how this all intersects with that topic everyone is talking about: AI. Last week, the International Energy Agency released the latest version of the World Energy Outlook, the annual report that takes…  ( 20 min )

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Telekom Malaysia (TM) has issued a statement, addressing complaints surrounding the failures of its Next Generation Emergency Response Services 999, or NG MERS 999 in short. Malaysia upgraded the 17-year-old MERS999 platform because it had reached its technical limits and could no longer support the country’s evolving emergency requirements. NG MERS 999 was introduced to […] The post TM Issues Statement Regarding NG MERS 999 Issues appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

Upgrading to a new iPhone every single year is a baffling habit, but if you’ve got the cash to burn, who’s stopping you? For everyone else who’s a little more careful with their money yet still feels oddly tempted to keep up with the annual cycle, Maxis now has something that might make that decision […] The post Maxis Launches Yearly Upgrade Programme For iPhone Customers appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

Porsche has unveiled the highly anticipated fully electric Cayenne, expanding the SUV’s powertrain lineup with two variants: the Cayenne Electric and the Cayenne Turbo Electric. Both models feature an all-wheel-drive system. In terms of design, the Cayenne EV sports slim Matrix LED headlights that are horizontally oriented and slightly rounded at the edges. The front […] The post Porsche Debuts Fully Electric Cayenne With A Dual-Variant Lineup appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 37 min )

As Malaysia continues to advance its AI aspirations, Johor has rapidly grown into a data centre hub. However, such developments do not come without a price. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, state officials have asked investors to temporarily halt water-cooled expansion projects for at least 18 months, or until mid […] The post Johor Data Centres Told To Postpone Expansions Until 2027 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

A recent SiSoftware ranker confirms that AMD’s next Ryzen Mobile series entry, codename Gorgon Point, will be officially called the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The entry also confirms that the red CPU and GPU maker is sticking to the same naming convention as the CPU’s predecessor. Specs-wise, the HX 470 is virtually the same […] The post Alleged AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 “Gorgon Point” Leaks appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

If you’ve ever looked at a controller and thought that what it really needs is a full set of flight controls, then Honeycomb Aeronautical has got you covered. The company specialises in accessories like flight sticks and pedals, so clearly the next logical step is to pack those controls into a compact gamepad. Enter the […] The post The Echo Aviation Controller Has A Full Set Of Flight Controls appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Oh Cloudflare. Just when you think the online service provider and web host can take a breather, it gets another problem slapped right into its face. This time, it’s an order by the Japanese courts to pay restitution to several Japanese publishers for hosting manga piracy sites. The Tokyo District Court ordered Cloudflare to pay […] The post Japanese Court Orders Cloudflare To Pay RM13.3 Million To Publishers Over Manga Piracy appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Last month, Fujifilm unveiled the instax mini LiPlay+, succeeding the mini LiPlay. Following the initial announcement, the brand has officially brought its latest hybrid instant camera to our shores. Like the preceding model, the mini LiPlay+ doubles as a smartphone printer. Beyond that, it comes with some upgrades, including a new selfie-taking capability. As a […] The post Fujifilm instax mini LiPlay+ Lands In Malaysia; Priced At RM938 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

If you’ve kept up with Samsung, then you might have heard that the company plans to launch its very own smart glasses sometime in 2025. But seeing how the year is almost over, we won’t be seeing it until 2026. Be that as it may, Samsung has disclosed several details about the wearable ahead of […] The post Samsung Galaxy Glasses Details Revealed Ahead Of 2026 Unveiling appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

The upcoming TQ Wuling Bingo is now open for booking, just days after the fully electric (EV) hatchback received its updated specifications. As per the automaker’s official website, both the Pro and Max variants can be reserved with a booking fee of RM50. Customers can also choose their preferred colour during the booking process. The […] The post TQ Wuling Bingo Now Available For Booking In Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Japanese researchers at NTT Laboratories have reportedly developed what they are calling the “world’s first spatial active noise control (spatial ANC) technology. While the technology isn’t new, its application in this context can fill a room, literally. NTT Laboratories says it achieved the spatial ANC by using a general purpose GPU, or GPGPU. “This technology […] The post Japanese Researchers Have Developed GPU-Powered, Room-Sized ANC Technology appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

U Mobile has rolled out its ULTRA5G network to three more major areas in the Klang Valley, bringing the next-generation 5G coverage to Bangi, Putrajaya, and Petaling Jaya New Town. Customers can now access the telco’s enhanced 5G experience throughout these entire townships, with supported devices displaying the “UM ULTRA5G” network name whenever the service […] The post U Mobile Expands ULTRA5G In Bangi, Putrajaya, And PJ New Town appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Lepas Malaysia has confirmed its debut in the local market in the first half of 2026. Recently, during a Media Connection Session, the company confirmed that its first model for the Malaysian market will be the L8 SUV. As previously highlighted, the SUV showcases sharp, angular LED daytime running lights, vertically stacked LED headlights set […] The post Lepas Malaysia Confirms L8 SUV As First Model For 2026 Launch appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

HONOR’s intriguing “Robot Phone” has made an appearance during the brand’s HONOR User Carnival in China. Initially revealed just partially via numerous teasers, the device is finally shown in all of its glory to visitors of the event. In case you missed our prior coverage, what makes the HONOR Robot Phone unique is its three-axis […] The post HONOR Robot Phone Makes First Physical Appearance In China appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

TikTok is preparing to give users more control over how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company confirmed that a new AI content control toggle will arrive soon in the Manage Topics section, offering a slider that adjusts the amount of AI content shown in the For You feed. This sits alongside existing […] The post TikTok To Let Users Limit AI Content Appearing In Their Feeds appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

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The feature connects USDT balances to PIX and Mercado Pago, enabling users to pay with QR codes and converting to local currency instantly.  ( 33 min )

The 67-year-old Hill’s recent autism diagnosis, as well as his advanced age, seemed to serve as mitigating factors for the sentencing judge.  ( 36 min )

"Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.  ( 33 min )

The protocol will instead focus on "liquidity infrastructure and deals" such as its recent $1 billion investment into PayPal's PYUSD.  ( 33 min )

Mike Selig, the nominee to be the next chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, testified at his confirmation hearing in the Senate.  ( 36 min )

Traders slash chances of a December cut to 33% as the Fed loses a key data point ahead of its final 2025 meeting.  ( 35 min )

The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority took the opening steps toward shepherding a potential $100 million private-sector bitcoin bond.  ( 34 min )

Onchain lending drove crypto-collateralized debt to a new peak in last quarter, but the leverage underpinning the market is now better collateralized than during the previous cycle.  ( 35 min )

ZKPs could become the backbone of a new era of trusted AI and digital identity, giving individuals and organizations a way to interact safely and transparently across platforms and borders, argues Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions Network.  ( 39 min )

After a rare spot of outperformance on Tuesday, bitcoin has resumed sliding, with one analyst eyeing $84,000–$86,000 as potential local bottom.

Technical breakdown gains momentum as institutional selling accelerates through overnight session.

The move comes amid new regulations from Brazil's central bank, requiring crypto firms to be licensed and report international transactions.

Hedera's native token breaks key levels on elevated volume. Institutional distribution patterns intensify selling pressure.

A surge in trading activity at key resistance levels marked the exhaustion of Monday’s rally, sending ICP back toward its short-term support band.

BONK slipped beneath a key support level amid a sharp rise in trading activity, with intraday charts now pointing toward a fragile short-term structure.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Joshua de Vos shares insights from a recent Benchmark report on how the exchange landscape is maturing and becoming more execution-focused, but increasingly uneven as regional licensing diverges, liquidity fragments, and transparency advances inconsistently. Then, we take a look at where the digital assets market may be headed in the final weeks of 2025 with Andy Baehr’s “Vibe Check."

The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines to send FDIC Acting Chair Travis Hill's nomination to the wider Senate for a final vote on taking the permanent job.

Also: Aerodrome Overhaul, Cloudflare Outage and dYdX Buyback Increase Approved.

The digital-asset treasury firm is sitting on a over 100% paper gains following Zcash's recent rally.

Staking guidance, broader listing standards and new index tools show how crypto ETFs are becoming core holdings.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fell 7% and Ripple (XRP) dropped 4.7%, leading the index lower.

Shares of the company rose 2% in pre-market trading.

Erik Thedéen said a different approach is needed as the U.S. and U.K. refused to implement the rules already set out.

London-based Globacap’s U.S. broker-dealer and alternative trading system (ATS) is regulated by FINRA and the SEC.

Investors navigate AI driven volatility, rate cut uncertainty and critical economic data releases.

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 19, 2025

With bitcoin stabilizing near critical support, traders shifted into altcoins, sparking sharp rebounds across a market still gripped by extreme fear.

The average spot bitcoin ETF buyer sits near a $90,000 cost basis, leaving most investors roughly flat.

Hyperliquid has launched HIP-3 growth mode, allowing permissionless market deployment with significantly reduced fees to enhance liquidity.

The wallet provider is deepening its bet on decentralized derivatives trading with a three-part integration.

A new class of Symbiotic underwriting vaults will create a reinsurance layer to help scale Nexus Mutual.

The price of bitcoin has dropped over 25% to $91,000 since Oct. 8.  ( 35 min )

Market observers note stable XRP/BTC and ETH/BTC ranges and an unusually balanced top-20 ranking, signaling fundamentals-driven dispersion rather than a broad alt season.  ( 34 min )

There was a stretch of days where my terminal tabs felt like they were slowly multiplying behind my back. I’d open a new project “just to try something,” hop into a client repo to fix a bug, jump into another folder because I remembered I needed to update something “real quick,” then spin up yet another experimental idea at 1 a.m. before bed. Suddenly I had four different terminals open, each running something important, each shouting logs at me, and absolutely no memory of which script belonged to which project. And honestly? But eventually I realized a pattern: managing coding. I wanted one place, a calm little command center, where I could see all my projects, what scripts they had, what was running, what wasn’t, and what was broken. No more guessing. No more hunting. No more “oh cool, …  ( 8 min )

Nothing much to mention today, I just wanted to take some rest! Youtube videos are lot of confusing, if you have any ideas or suggestions on how to learn this, please help me out! Django #WebDevelopment #Python #LearningInPublic #100DaysOfCode #BeginnerDev #postgresql  ( 6 min )

Manufacturers using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central know that production scheduling can quickly become complicated. The built-in tools handle basic scheduling, but when multiple work centers, machine constraints, and shifting priorities come into play, things get complex. Below are three common questions users ask when schedules look good on-screen but fall apart on the shop floor. Business Central’s standard scheduling uses backward scheduling and assumes infinite capacity. The system works backward from a due date to suggest a start date, often setting production to begin in the past. Machines and work centers appear to have unlimited hours, leading to overloaded schedules no team could realistically execute. Production managers spend hours manually moving tasks, adjusting timeli…  ( 7 min )

Manufacturers using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central know that production scheduling can quickly become complicated. The built-in tools handle basic scheduling, but when multiple work centers, machine constraints, and shifting priorities come into play, things get complex. Below are three common questions users ask when schedules look good on-screen but fall apart on the shop floor. Business Central’s standard scheduling uses backward scheduling and assumes infinite capacity. The system works backward from a due date to suggest a start date, often setting production to begin in the past. Machines and work centers appear to have unlimited hours, leading to overloaded schedules no team could realistically execute. Production managers spend hours manually moving tasks, adjusting timeli…  ( 7 min )

I’ve been looking for a controller that bridges the gap between a traditional club setup and a more experimental, production-driven workflow. Last week I started testing the Pioneer DDJ-FLX10, and it has already reshaped the way I think about mixing. I wasn’t expecting it to have such a big impact, but a few days with it made certain ideas feel possible that I couldn’t quite execute on other gear. The most talked-about feature is the Track Separation system, and it really does live up to the hype. Being able to isolate vocals, drums, and melodic elements in real time gives you far more flexibility than the standard EQ or filter approach. It feels closer to having stem packs for every song in your library, even if the original track wasn’t designed that way. I’ve already used it to strip ou…  ( 7 min )

In late 2025, three large models dominate most serious AI discussions: Google’s Gemini 3, OpenAI’s GPT-4 (and GPT-4 Turbo via ChatGPT), and Anthropic’s Claude 2/2.1. All three are capable flagships, yet they embody very different philosophies: Google optimizes for multimodality and massive context. OpenAI emphasizes polished reasoning and rich tooling. Anthropic focuses on safety, honesty, and long-context analysis. which model is best for a given use case, you need more than marketing claims. You need a structured comparison of architecture, reasoning, coding ability, context length, multimodality, developer ergonomics, and safety. This article offers exactly that — in an editorial yet technical framing, optimized for SEO and GEO coverage across US, EU, and APAC audiences. Gemini …  ( 19 min )

Why Chatbots Change User Behaviour and Why Google Might Regain the Lead Conversational AI is becoming the default interface for everyday digital tasks. People ask questions, explain situations and seek guidance in a way that feels natural. But behind that convenience sits a shift that most users barely recognise. Chatbots receive far more personal context than search engines ever did, and this difference has major implications for privacy and platform dominance. This article examines the concerns that come with this new behaviour and why Google’s position in the ecosystem may eventually give it an advantage over standalone assistants like ChatGPT. For more insights on AI transformation, visit the Scalevise resource hub at https://scalevise.com/resources A search bar limits how much peopl…  ( 12 min )

Large language models (LLMs) have evolved from impressive demos into the computational backbone of search, coding copilots, data analysis, and creative tools. But as pre-training pushes up against data scarcity and rising compute costs, simply “making the base model bigger” is no longer a sustainable strategy. In 2025, the real leverage has shifted to post-training: everything we do after the base model is trained to turn a generic text predictor into a reliable, aligned, domain-aware system. OpenAI, Scale AI, Hugging Face, Red Hat, and others are converging on the same insight: if pre-training built the engine, post-training is where we tune it for the track. This article explains: What LLM post-training is and why it matters in 2025 Top post-training techniques (SFT, RLHF, PEFT, continu…  ( 16 min )

Exploring how traffic moves inside a VPC can make AWS networking feel much more approachable. Route tables and Internet Gateways (IGWs) quietly influence how your subnets function across your network. In this article, we’ll walk through them step by step so the concepts stay clear and grounded. Route tables are essentially instruction sets that guide traffic within your VPC. Each subnet connects to exactly one route table, which determines what that subnet can reach. The default local route (for example, 10.0.0.0/16 local) lets all subnets talk to each other without extra configuration. Anything beyond that depends on the routes you add. Think of routes like road signs: “If traffic wants to go to X, send it to Y.” Route tables also become more interesting in multi-VPC environments. You mig…  ( 9 min )

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on integrating a number of LLM-based features throughout our product; things like content generation, intelligent recommendations, and agentic task flows. As these features matured, one question kept coming up: how do we actually test this? Traditional unit testing works beautifully for deterministic code. You write a test, assert an expected output, and move on. But LLMs don’t behave that way; run the same prompt twice and you'll get two different responses. So how do you test something that never gives you the same answer? Our in-house LLM service already had strong test coverage, so at the application layer we treated it like any other dependency: we mocked it. Our unit tests would stub out the LLM responses and focus on testing the code aroun…  ( 11 min )

When joining a mixed reality (XR) company I wanted to help with the scripting and we were all on Windows at the time. So, I was introduced to PowerShell and system management. I quickly found out that Windows makes everything difficult. Networked system communication, software versioning and an overall bloated OS to name a few pain points. One of the core functions of our dashboard was to run PowerShell scripts from Unreal. I discovered when running 20 scripts at once would just max out the CPU. Each instance of PowerShell launches a .NET instance in the background, couple that with anti malware software scanning it or a machine left on all the time and you've got a bad time. Even basic ping scripts would be unreliable, Windows limits network resources so they cannot be abused (ICMP throt…  ( 7 min )

As AI systems evolve from single-user assistants into multi-participant collaborators, ChatGPT Group Chat has emerged as one of the most important developments in OpenAI’s product roadmap. Instead of siloed conversations, teams can now interact with ChatGPT in a shared, persistent environment, transforming it into an AI-native workspace for communication, knowledge sharing, and real-time ideation. what ChatGPT Group Chat is, how it works, and why it matters for global organizations, educators, and everyday users. Written with SEO GEO in mind, the piece maintains a technical and editorial tone while providing practical guidance for readers across the US, EU, and APAC. In the updated ChatGPT interface, users can initiate a group chat by selecting “Start a Group Chat” from the navigation bar…  ( 9 min )

This part of the Nuxt tutorial focuses on middleware — handlers that can be invoked automatically before rendering a given page on the frontend or before processing data on the server side. Client-side middleware files live in the /app/middleware folder, from which Nuxt automatically loads them. Middleware runs during navigation (routing). For a file to be recognized as middleware, it must export default the defineNuxtRouteMiddleware method. The handler receives to (destination) and from (origin) route objects. The syntax looks like this: export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware((to, from) => { // logic }) The type of to and from params comes from Vue Router and is called RouteLocationNormalizedGeneric. Through these objects you can access all key navigation info — URL, query parameters…  ( 9 min )

Text-to-image diffusion models have become the workhorses of generative imaging. They can paint photorealistic scenes, mimic art styles, and blend concepts in ways that were science fiction a few years ago. Yet they stumble embarrassingly on a skill that even small children master: basic spatial reasoning. Ask a state-of-the-art model for “a dog to the right of a teddy bear” and you often get: The dog on the left One of the objects missing Or a bizarre hybrid where dog and teddy are fused into a single creature These failures become more severe for unusual compositions like “a giraffe above an airplane”. Traditional fixes range from expensive fine-tuning to brittle, hand-written loss functions at inference time—but both options come with significant downsides. NVIDIA’s Learn-to-Steer fram…  ( 15 min )

Swift 6.3 is bringing significant enhancements to Embedded Swift, the subset of Swift designed for resource-constrained environments like microcontrollers. Here's what's new: Floating-point printing: The description and debugDescription properties now work for Float, Double, and other floating-point types with a new all-Swift implementation Better diagnostics: New EmbeddedRestrictions diagnostic group warns about unsupported language constructs Swift MMIO 0.1.x: Includes code generation from SVD files and improved debugging with SVD2LLDB plugin @c attribute: Define C-compatible functions and enums (from SE-0495) @c(MyLib_initialize) public func initialize() { ... } Improved type matching: Better tolerance for mismatching C signatures, eliminating cryptic deserialization errors Enhanced LLDB support: Better value printing for Embedded Swift types Core dump inspection: Dictionary, Array, and other common types now inspectable without a live process ARMv7m exception unwinding: Complete backtraces through exception frames @section and @used attributes: Control where globals are emitted and ensure symbols aren't stripped (SE-0492) Weak symbol definitions: Fixes duplicate symbol errors in diamond dependencies @export attribute: Better control over function visibility (SE-0497) Want to dive deeper? Read the full announcement on Swift.org  ( 8 min )

I’ve been continuing to chip away at EcoFurball — my little side project focused on sustainable, eco-friendly pet care. If you saw my earlier post, you know this is something I’m building slowly, one useful guide at a time. This week, I published a new article that dives into something most pet owners (including me, originally) never think about: microplastics in our pets’ daily routine. From water bowls to indoor dust, it’s wild how many small things add up. Here’s the new post if you’re curious: 👉 [https://ecofurball.com/reduce-microplastics-in-your-pets-routine/] From a project-building perspective, this piece was fun because it touched multiple parts of the workflow: researching a topic where pet care overlaps with environmental science writing with clarity but avoiding the “SEO robot voice” creating multiple images and matching schemas and making sure the whole thing fits into the content structure I’ve been evolving over the last couple of months The more I work on EcoFurball, the more I realise that keeping the site healthy isn’t just about writing articles — it’s about maintaining the workflow behind them: backlinks, fresh posts, image prep, schemas, and the whole publishing pipeline. If you’re working on a side project too — whether it’s dev-focused or content-focused — I’d love to hear: Always open to hearing how other creators balance consistency with everything else in life.  ( 6 min )

Three major outages in 2025 looked unrelated, but all were triggered by the same hidden architectural weakness. This post breaks down how tiny internal assumptions inside AWS, Azure and Cloudflare cascaded into global failures, and why this pattern matters for anyone building distributed systems. Cloudflare’s outage this week looked like another routine disruption. These were not isolated failures. shared structural pattern. Different providers. Different stacks. Different layers. Same failure behaviour. Cloudflare’s incident had nothing to do with load, DDoS attacks, or hardware. The sequence unfolded like this: extra metadata became visible a bot-scoring query wasn’t built to handle it the feature file doubled in size it exceeded a hardcoded limit FL proxies panicked bot scoring col…  ( 8 min )

Yesterday’s Cloudflare outage wasted a few hours of my time — not because the outage was confusing, but because my monitoring stack gave me zero context about what was actually failing. Everything lit up red. Every alert fired. my origin Cloudflare’s edge DNS SSL routing My servers were completely fine the whole time. The real issue ended up being Cloudflare’s Bot Management system (a feature file doubled in size and tripped them up). The bigger discovery: So I built a simple tool today to diagnose exactly that: 👉 https://stayup.dev Paste a URL and it checks: origin health Cloudflare/Vercel/AWS edge DNS SSL expiry CDN failure patterns I built this out of frustration, but if you’re interested I’d love to hear how your monitoring handled the outage yesterday.  ( 6 min )

En este post te cuento cómo desplegué una aplicación en AWS usando Elastic Container Service (ECS) y Elastic Container Registry (ECR). 👉 La idea es: contenerizamos la app, subimos la imagen, armamos un clúster ECS y la aplicación queda corriendo en ECS (Con EC2) ARQUITECTURA 🐳 1. Preparar la instancia EC2 para construir la imagen Primero lanzamos una EC2 con Amazon Linux 2023 para preparar la imagen que luego enviaremos a ECR. 🔧 Instalar Docker y Git sudo dnf update -y sudo yum install -y docker sudo systemctl enable --now docker sudo systemctl status docker sudo yum install -y git 📥 Clonar el repositorio y construye la imagen. Clona la carpeta 4 del repositorio: https://github.com/NotHarshhaa/DevOps-Projects/tree/master/DevOps-Project-04 git clone cd <directorio…  ( 7 min )

Brazilian is a Python library focused on providing a simple and powerful way to work with common Brazilian data. It is currently in its early stages, contributors and feedback are welcome. GitHub: (link below) https://github.com/MauricioReisdoefer/brazilian  ( 6 min )

System design interviews can feel overwhelming. You draw big boxes. You label them. You sketch arrows.You talk about APIs, queues, caching, scalability, data models, and failure modes. And even after all that, your interviewer can still say, "What happens when this part fails?" or "Walk me through your data consistency model." It feels endless 😭 But after seeing hundreds of candidates prepare, practice, and interview, one pattern has become incredibly clear. You can memorize dozens of famous system designs from YouTube videos or GitHub repositories. You can replicate architecture diagrams for Netflix, Uber, or Instagram. But real interviews almost never follow that script. Instead, interviewers test how you think. They ask questions like: Explain http vs https Why would you choose REST o…  ( 8 min )

Sooner or later you inherit a codebase that makes you wonder if the previous developer lost a bet. I gave candidates exactly that kind of application; circular dependencies, no separation of concerns, a structural mess and asked them to extend it. Their reactions exposed a deeper cultural divide in how developers think about their work. The initial app was a deliberate train wreck: violations of separation of concerns, circular dependencies, and no real interfaces. It exposed multiple endpoints such as HTTP and SMTP. The task was to add a new JMS endpoint. The idea was simple. Applicants received instructions written in the voice of a business owner. It wasn’t a trick question or a strict feature-delivery test. Yes, they had to add the endpoint, but the real question was whether they’d con…  ( 8 min )

I truly believe computer-vision powered control systems are inefficient. Listen to me… Computer vision takes more compute power than necessary in the sense that it does more work just to get something simple done. Like imagine I just want to “click” a button. It sounds futuristic and cool, but the world of engineering is not about “cool”, it’s about efficiency. It’s about the cleanest, most reliable, most deterministic way to get something done. But CV? orders of magnitude more energy than basic sensors, even when compressed or run on microcontrollers. And then we want to make this whole stack the “OS” of the system? foundation we’re supposed to trust? The moment you make CV dynamic, you’re telling the model to deal with noise — light changes, shadows, random movement in the background, mistakes where the model thinks your hand is a command you didn’t mean, etc. Even industry papers emphasize how camera-based gesture systems get false positives in messy environments. And a control layer that triggers stuff you didn’t intend is the fastest way to create a very unreliable system. An OS should be accurate more often than not. CV doesn’t give you that consistency unless you freeze the environment — fixed lighting, fixed angle, fixed setup — and that’s not how normal people use computers. So for me, CV fits more into monitoring roles, not control roles. Monitoring = “watch the scene, tell me what’s happening.” CV excels at monitoring. That’s where it shines. Surveillance, object detection, anomaly spotting, robotics feedback loops — the research literally shows CV thrives when it’s observing and reporting. But controlling an OS? You might ask: “What about VR?” simple sensors first and then sprinkle in CV only for extra precision. Because those basic sensors are faster, cleaner, and more reliable for moment-to-moment control. In simple terms: primary way we control systems just feels like the wrong engineering choice right now.  ( 7 min )

Building a Dice Battle Simulator with Monte Carlo Analysis in Java Ever wondered what your actual chances are in dice-based combat systems? I built a simple Java program to find out, and the results were a big surprise. Note: This battle system is similar to the dice comparison mechanics used in the board game Risk (a trademark of Hasbro). This is purely an independent interpretation and not an official use of the trademark. In this dice battle system, battles are decided by dice rolls with some interesting rules: One attacker must always stay behind - if you have 5 troops, only 4 actually attack Attacker rolls 1-3 dice (based on attacking troop count) Defender rolls 1-2 dice (based on troop count) Highest dice are compared Defender wins ties (this is crucial!) Simple question: If I have…  ( 9 min )

Alchemy Reimagined: AI-Powered Atom Creation for Novel Materials Imagine searching for the perfect material for a next-generation battery, only to be limited by existing atomic structures. Or designing a revolutionary drug, but failing to synthesize the key crystalline compound. These challenges highlight a fundamental bottleneck in materials discovery: the fixed nature of atomic composition. We've developed a new approach that allows AI to transcend these limitations. By enabling our diffusion models to dynamically introduce or remove atoms during the crystal generation process, we dramatically expand the design space. Think of it like clay sculpting – the AI can now add or subtract atomic "clay" to mold entirely new crystal structures. This dynamic adjustment, which we call "mirage inf…  ( 7 min )

Software development is changing fast, and AI-powered tools are becoming a natural part of the workflow. One tool getting a lot of attention is Cursor—an AI-first code editor designed to boost productivity without replacing your ability to think and code. This article breaks down what Cursor actually is, common fears around adopting it, how to use it properly, new vs experienced developers, some downsides, etc. Cursor is a code editor built around AI assistance. Think of it like VS Code, but with an intelligent companion sitting inside the editor. This companion can read your codebase, make changes, generate new files, refactor existing ones, and help you understand complex areas. You can write prompts directly inside your editor, select parts of your code, and ask Cursor to fix, rewrite, …  ( 10 min )

You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Every Python developer has done it. Staring at a block of code, you see the familiar pattern: an empty list is initialized, a for loop iterates over some collection, and inside the loop, append() dutifully adds a transformed or filtered item to the new list. It works. It’s the classic way. But it often feels verbose, a multi-line ceremony for a simple intent. This procedural approach, while functional, can obscure the what with the how. As we tackle more sophisticated challenges in domains like data processing, generative AI, and large language models (LLMs), the clarity, efficiency, and sheer expressiveness of our code become paramount. Clean, compact code isn't just an aesthetic choice; it translates to faster data processing, easier maintenance, and a more …  ( 13 min )

TL;DR # if we have a class like this from dataclasses import dataclass @dataclass(order=True) class Item: name: str quantity: int # in a big enough list items = [Item("book", 5), Item("pencil", 3), Item("book", 6), ...] # this sorting will be faster items.sort(key=lambda item: (item.name, item.quantity)) # than this items.sort() Why? Well... One of the things Python makes really simple is sorting. You can easily find the answer to the question "how sorting is implemented in Python?" which almost always answers another question: "What sorting algorithm does Python use?". The answer often leaves one detail behind. An optimization introduced in python 3.7: sorted() and list.sort() have been optimized for common cases to be up to 40-75% faster. (Contributed by Elliot Gorokhovsky i…  ( 11 min )

💭 The Problem I found myself committing a cardinal sin in Terraform — repeating configuration across multiple projects. When deploying Azure resources, we often need region- or environment-specific values. For example, virtual networks may need different routes or DNS servers depending on the location. I was managing these using lookup tables in local variables, like this: locals { firewall_ip = { "westeurope" = "10.0.0.1" "northeurope" = "10.0.0.2" } } This worked fine… until it didn’t. Every time a region or IP changed, I had to update the same table in multiple projects — a maintenance nightmare. What I really needed was a global lookup table — a shared, central source of truth I could query across all Terraform projects. The solution turned out to be beautifully simple…  ( 7 min )

Our company wants us to create some restriction on the network. From the diagram above we need to perform the following tasks to managed permissions using secrets keys and certificates. Let’s follow the four steps to demonstrate the solutions. Create the storage account and managed identity. Secure access to the storage account with a key vault and key. Configure the storage account to use the customer managed key in the key vault. Configure a time-based retention policy and an encryption scope. Step 1. Provide a storage account for the web app. Step 2. Provide a managed identity for the web app to use. Step 3. Assign the correct permissions to the managed identity. The identity only needs to read and list containers and blobs Now let’s Secure access to the storage account with a key vault and key we created. Step 2. Create a key vault to store the access keys. Step 3. Create a customer-managed key in the key vault. Configure the storage account to use the customer managed key in the key vault Step 2. Configure the storage account to use the customer managed key in your key vault Configure a time-based retention policy and an encryption scope. Step 2. The developers require an encryption scope that enables infrastructure encryption. ..........The future of Tech is HERE...... Hope this resource helps! #Virtualization #RDP #CloudComputing #Techblog #ITInfrasttructure #MS #AZURE #VirtualMachine #Innovation #Technologytrend #AZURE # AZUREBLOB #DEVOPS VMWARE #HYPER-V #DevCommunity #Tech #CoachRaphaelGab-Momoh #Skill.Sch #SSLAB #LinkedInTechCommunity  ( 10 min )

Part 6 of 6 | The final installment in our comprehensive Java 17 features series This is Part 6 (final) of "Java 17 Features Every Senior Developer Should Know" - your complete desktop reference for all 6 modern Java features spanning Java 10-17. This guide consolidates everything from Parts 1-5, providing syntax cards, decision matrices, and real-world patterns you can reference while working with contemporary Java code. We've covered 6 major Java features that fundamentally changed how developers write clean, maintainable code: Part Feature Release Purpose 1 var - Type Inference Java 10 Eliminate verbose type declarations 2 Records - Immutable Data Java 16 Replace boilerplate data classes 3 Sealed Classes - Hierarchy Control Java 17 Enforce closed type systems 4 Pattern …  ( 14 min )

The Core Problem: Logging Has Become Too Heavy In many Node.js projects, logging libraries try to handle too much at once: complex configuration files confusing APIs nested options that make setup slower than writing your own wrapper blocking writes that slow down the event loop inconsistent performance between development mode and production I wanted to create a logger that didn’t feel like a burden. You should be able to add it to a project quickly and rely on it without thinking too much. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Dev-Dami/tini-log The Philosophy Behind dd-tinylog 1 . It is Lightweight 2 . It is Flexible 3 . Making Simple Structures Real Usage Example Installation npm install dd-tinylog Simple Use of logger import { Logger } from 'dd-tinylog'; const logger = new Logger({ level: 'info', async: true, colorize: true, transports: [ { type: 'console' }, { type: 'file', options: { path: './logs/app.log' } }, ], prefix: '[My-App]', timestamp: true, }); logger.info('Server started'); logger.warn('Low disk space'); logger.error('Database error', { code: 500 }); Child Loggers const requestLogger = logger.createChild({ prefix: '[Request-123]', context: { requestId: 'req-123' }, }); requestLogger.info('Processing request'); This keeps logs organized without needing separate logger files or duplicated configuration. Where Does This Library Fit Web servers and APIs CLI tools Background workers Microservices Development and testing Regardless of the environment, the goal is the same: keep logs flowing without slowing everything else down.  ( 7 min )

I didn’t mean to end up at the beach that day. It was one of those afternoons where the whole world felt like it was pushing me from the inside out, and I didn’t know where to put that feeling. The sky was bright, the kind of blue that almost feels loud, and I remember thinking I should probably just go home, close the blinds, and pretend the day wasn’t happening. But instead, my steering wheel pulled me toward the water like it had its own plan. I drove with the windows cracked, my arm resting against the door, and the wind coming in just hard enough to feel real. I didn’t have a swimsuit, a towel, or anything that said I had planned for the beach. All I had in my bag was a book of poetry I’d been carrying around without reading, a snack, and a bunch of receipts I kept forgetting to throw…  ( 11 min )

Building a Risk Battle Simulator with Monte Carlo Analysis in Java Ever wondered what your actual chances are when attacking in Risk? I built a simple Java program to find out, and the results were a big suprise. In Risk, battles are decided by dice rolls with some interesting rules: One attacker must always stay behind - if you have 5 troops, only 4 actually attack Attacker rolls 1-3 dice (based on attacking troop count) Defender rolls 1-2 dice (based on troop count) Highest dice are compared Defender wins ties (this is crucial!) Simple question: If I have f.e. 5 attackers (4 real Attackers) vs 3 defenders, what are my actual chances of winning? Why this is the probability, I'll explain in this post. Instead of calculating exact probabilities (which gets complex fast), I used Monte Car…  ( 9 min )

1. Introduction Key Technical Topics Covered (Interview Highlights) Hybrid OLAP/OLTP architecture (Sections 1 & 2): Elasticsearch for multi-dimensional search + Redis for real-time availability (and why neither alone is sufficient). Transactional Outbox + CDC (Section 2.2): Keeping Elasticsearch in sync with the primary DB without dual writes. Elasticsearch modeling (Sections 3 & 4): Denormalized hotel/room documents, geo fields, amenity facets, script scoring, and index aliasing for zero-downtime reindex. Redis availability design (Section 6): Per-night bitmaps / sorted sets, multi-night intersections, TTL/eviction strategies, and consistency with bookings. Query pipeline (Section 7): Coordinated ES + Redis flow with fallbacks when availability or index data diverges. Advan…  ( 37 min )

All Linux distribution users are familiar with "AppImages": they are portable and do not require any prior installation. This is very convenient, but as it stands, the application does not appear in any of the computer's menus and is not necessarily detected by launchers. This is where .desktop files come in. A .desktop file is simply a text file that tells the computer that an application exists and creates a new entry in the menu. A basic .desktop file contains several informations about the application it describes : [Desktop Entry]: Mandatory header, that indicates a menu entry Type: "Application", "Link", or "Directory" (but here we want "Application") Name: The name that will appear in the menu Comment: The tooltip that shows when hovering over the icon. Icon: The path to the icon of the app Exec: The command to run to launch the app Terminal: To know whether it should run from a terminal or not Categories: To categorize the app (e.g., "Development", "Game", "Network") This would look like this : [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=MySuperApp Comment=Super is my app Icon=/home/YOUR_USER/Applications/my-super-app.png Exec=/home/YOUR_USER/Applications/MySuperApp.AppImage Terminal=false Categories=Utility; ⚠️ Exec and Icon don't understand relative paths. You need to use absolute paths for those fields. To have a functional menu entry, the AppImage needs to be executable, meaning it has the permission to be executed. To do so, the following command can be used : chmod +x /home/YOUR_USER/Applications/MySuperApp.AppImage For your desktop to know where to find your menu entry, you can your freshly created file in ~/.local/share/applications/. The menu entry will be available for the user possessing the .desktop file. It can also be placed in /usr/share/applications/, if all the user of the desktop should have the menu entry. You should now see your app with its icon. You can now search for it, pin it to your dock, or launch it just like any other installed application.  ( 7 min )

‘Weird Science’ Rewatch with Bill Simmons & Kyle Brandt Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive headfirst into John Hughes’s 1985 cult classic Weird Science on their Ringer Rewatchables series, unpacking all the sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll vibes (plus the inevitable chips, dips, chains and whips) that made this movie a neon-soaked time capsule. Expect a fun, nostalgia-packed breakdown of Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith’s chemistry, plus plenty of laughs and insider anecdotes about why this goofy sci-fi comedy still hooks audiences today. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Llamado ético y convincente a los sujetos obligados para la implementación de TarantulaHawk.ai En el marco de la Ley Federal de Prevención e Identificación de Operaciones con Recursos de Procedencia Ilícita (LFPIORPI), los sujetos obligados en México enfrentan el desafío de detectar y reportar operaciones inusuales y relevantes a fin de prevenir y combatir el lavado de dinero y el financiamiento del terrorismo. En este contexto, es fundamental adoptar soluciones tecnológicas que no solo cumplan con los requisitos regulatorios, sino que también contribuyan a la reducción de costos, la trazabilidad y el cumplimiento sostenible. En este sentido, nos gustaría llamar la atención de los sujetos obligados hacia TarantulaHawk.ai, una plataforma SaaS de Prevención del Lavado de Dinero (PLD) basada …  ( 7 min )

Author: Carlos Orue Part 1 of 3: Base System Setup This is the first article in a three-part series on deploying production-ready applications on Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS: Part 1: Ubuntu Installation and Base Setup (this article) - Deploy and configure a secure Ubuntu Server foundation Part 2: Docker and Container Management (coming soon) - Set up Docker for containerized application deployment Part 3: CI/CD for Python Applications (coming soon) - Automate testing and deployment with modern CI/CD pipelines Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) has become the gold standard for cloud Virtual Private Server (VPS) deployments. Whether you're deploying a personal project, launching a startup, or managing production infrastructure, Ubuntu LTS releases provide the reliability, security, and ecosy…  ( 23 min )

Docker was introduced in 2013, changing the way software is developed and deployed almost overnight. Thirteen years later, container security is still not discussed nearly enough. To help you navigate this evolving space, here are the top 5 books on Docker and Kubernetes security for 2026. In curating this list, I considered: Relevance: Coverage of modern container security practices, including recent advances in Docker, Kubernetes, and supply-chain security. Practicality: Hands-on examples, real-world case studies, and actionable advice. Author Expertise: Books written by practitioners with deep experience in DevOps, security, and cloud-native systems. Community Feedback: Positive reception and long-term relevance in the container community. Note: 3 of the 5 books in this list were publis…  ( 8 min )

Recent Breakthrough in Edge AI: Ultra-Low Power Consumption Imagine a small, intelligent sensor that can be embedded into everyday objects, revolutionizing the way we interact with our surroundings. The latest breakthrough in Edge AI has made this vision a reality. Researchers at our lab have successfully developed an Edge AI chip that consumes a mere 10 microwatts of power, making it suitable for deployment in extremely low-power devices. What's even more impressive is that this chip is capable of processing complex neural networks in real-time, using a novel architecture that we call "Hierarchical Spiking Neural Networks" (HSNN). HSNN mimics the way our brains process information, using electrical spikes to efficiently transmit data. The concrete detail that sets this breakthrough apart is its ability to detect and classify objects in a 3D environment using only a single camera. This is a significant achievement, as most Edge AI systems require multiple cameras or sophisticated sensors to achieve similar results. Our HSNN chip achieves this feat using a technique called " depth-from-shading," which infers depth information from the shadows and highlights in an image. This technology has far-reaching implications for applications such as smart homes, smart cities, and even wearable devices. Imagine a future where your phone or smartwatch can detect and analyze your surroundings in real-time, without draining your battery in the process. The possibilities are endless, and we're excited to see where this technology takes us. Publicado automáticamente  ( 6 min )

The Quantum Leap in Machine Learning: Why Quantum Supremacy is Overhyped As we navigate the vast expanse of machine learning (ML), the buzz around quantum ML has reached a fever pitch. While some hail quantum computing as the next revolutionary leap in AI, I believe the excitement has overshadowed a crucial aspect: the practical limitations of our current understanding. Quantum supremacy, the concept of demonstrating a quantum computer's ability to solve a problem that's intractable for classical computers, has been touted as a benchmark for quantum ML's potential. However, I argue that this metric is a narrow measure of success. It focuses solely on solving complex mathematical problems, neglecting the fact that most real-world problems involve uncertainty, noise, and error – all challeng…  ( 7 min )

You're a software engineer. You know how to write efficient code. But are you writing code efficiently? Research shows developers spend only 3-4 hours per day in actual deep work—the rest is lost to meetings, context switching, and tool inefficiencies. That's not a motivation problem. It's a systems problem. This article covers 7 productivity hacks used by top developers that can reclaim 6-10 hours of focus time per week without working longer. These aren't generic "stay organized" tips—they're specific, technical strategies backed by cognitive science and adopted by high-performing engineering teams at companies like GitLab, Basecamp, and Linear. I've personally used all 7 of these techniques for the past 3 years, and they've transformed how I code, manage my calendar, and protect my focu…  ( 12 min )

In a concurrent database context locks are used to prevent race conditions between data accesses. To handle these situations we need to decide how we'll react to a race condition, in an optimistic or an pessimistic way. This article will be a quick summary for when using each of the approaches and how to apply them in PostgreSQL. We tend to use pessimistic locks when data is frequently changed and it's known that conflicts are common. The idea of the strategy is to use a lock in a database level that blocks other processes to access the locked rows. This will add more latency because of the blocking behavior, so given that the tradeoff here needs to be considered at scale. Overall, this approach is used when data being updated is critical, we can't take the action atomically in the databas…  ( 9 min )

I am currently working on the project YouTubeLayer. The prototype worked fine initially, but when I tried to move it to a working production system and scale it, everything started breaking. It felt like playing Jenga — touch one block, and the whole tower comes crashing down. That’s when I stumbled upon something that completely changed the way I thought about software design — the SOLID principles. These five principles aren’t just fancy theory; they’re a way of writing code that’s easy to understand, extend, and maintain. And trust me — once you start applying them, your code (and your sanity) will thank you. Let’s go through them one by one, in the simplest way possible 👇 Definition: only one reason to change — in other words, it should do only one thing. In plain English: Example: Us…  ( 9 min )

Next.js 16 enabled Turbopack as a default bundler. It is fast, modern, and noticeably improves the DX in many areas. But when I started adding SVG icons to my project, I realized the common options did not cover my needs: I wanted icons to be inlined, so they display instantly without an extra network request. I wanted to avoid the SVG-in-JS performance penalty (more on this later). I wanted to customize icon color via CSS. And everything had to be compatible with Turbopack, not just Webpack. I tried the popular SVG approaches for Next.js apps: built-in , SVGR, SVG sprites. They are all well-known and widely used, but none of them fully matched my requirements. Let’s look at why they fall short and how I built a custom Turbopack loader that solved the issue. Let me quickly show wh…  ( 12 min )

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm working on FreeDevTools online currently building **one place for all dev tools, cheat codes, and TLDRs* — a free, open-source hub where developers can quickly find and use tools without any hassle of searching all over the internet.* SQLite is insanely fast and better-sqlite3 is one of the fastest Node.js bindings for it. But there’s a catch: better-sqlite3 is synchronous. entire Node.js event loop freezes until the query finishes. Most apps never notice this because SQLite is quick. But if you're building an API, SSR site, search system, analytics dashboard, or anything with heavy SELECT / INSERT queries… You can hit performance issues. This is where Worker Threads come in. This post explains: What problem worker threads solve How they work with better-sqlite3 H…  ( 8 min )

Amazon Web Services is pretty much the cloud platform everyone talks about these days. With over 200 services, though, figuring out what you actually need can get overwhelming fast. You don’t need to become an AWS wizard to build something solid in the cloud. Most successful cloud projects stick to 10–15 core AWS services that cover the basics — computing, storage, databases, and security. Whether you’re a startup putting out your first app or a big company moving to the cloud, these services are the real backbone. They show up in nearly every AWS deployment I’ve seen. Let’s run through the AWS services you’ll bump into in almost any project. I’ll also point out the crucial tools that keep your stuff secure and humming along. If you focus on these proven services, you’ll have what you need…  ( 11 min )

In today’s fast-paced software environment, teams are no longer satisfied with manually tracking test cases in spreadsheets or disconnected tools. They want a centralized way to plan, execute, and monitor testing that aligns directly with development and business workflows. By the end of this guide, you’ll understand not just the features of ServiceNow Test Management, but how it solves real problems, connects QA with change management, and helps your organization achieve reliable, scalable, and auditable ServiceNow testing processes. ServiceNow Test Management is a structured module designed to plan, execute, and track test cases across IT and business applications. Unlike standalone spreadsheets or disconnected tools, it provides a centralized platform that connects QA efforts with devel…  ( 13 min )

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Most people think ChatGPT gives random or shallow answers - but in reality, the quality of its output depends entirely on how you structure the input. Modern LLMs respond best when you treat them like highly capable assistants: give them a role, context, constraints, and a clear outcome. In this post, I’ll walk through 10 advanced prompting techniques that consistently produce expert-level answers, cleaner code, deeper analysis, and more useful documents. These techniques are based on 2026-era model behavior and are designed for developers, founders, analysts, and anyone who uses AI for daily work. For a deeper dive and more examples, check out my extended guide: 10 powerful prompts for ChatGPT Large language models don’t "guess" what you want—they follow instructions. Here are four fundam…  ( 8 min )

In this comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to build and deploy a complete MERN stack blog application ("Bitblog") from scratch. This isn't just a simple demo; it's a full-featured platform with a modern front-end, a secure back-end, and a complete admin dashboard to manage all your content, users, and comments. This is the perfect portfolio project to impress employers! By the end of this video, you will have built: 💻 Front-End Tech Stack: ⚙️ Back-End Tech Stack: 🔗 ESSENTIAL LINKS: https://docs.blog-api.codewithsadee.com/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zAjiFs7HSpm41RCSzEDQmBPHrjJ5tEHU/view?usp=sharing https://www.patreon.com/posts/source-code-blog-140001975?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link https://buymeacoffee.com/codewithsadee/e/462834 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rest-api-source-130599482?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link https://gist.github.com/codewithsadee/e60ef18142d09b2f8ca5ae991452a3bb http://hostinger.com/in/codewithsadee TIMESTAMPS: Like, share, and subscribe for more full-stack tutorials!  ( 7 min )

Imagine you’re the Chief Architect of a futuristic city called CloudVille. Every time a new district needs to be built—homes, roads, power lines, streetlights, water systems—your team builds everything manually. It works… but not really. One engineer wires things differently. Someone forgets a streetlight. Two districts were supposed to be identical… they’re not. And if a district collapses? Rebuilding takes forever. Your city is growing fast, and chaos is becoming expensive. 🏗️ Enter CloudFormation — The Magical Blueprint One day, the Council of CloudVille gives you a special book. Each page describes an entire district: What buildings exist How big they are How roads connect What power grid they use You write the plan once, give it to the magical builders, and… ➡️ The entire district ap…  ( 7 min )

Advertising is Evolving: Here's Where It's Heading in the AI Era As developers, we’re in the midst of an AI renaissance. Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how we interact with technology, yet many AI applications still struggle with a crucial challenge: monetization. Enter Monetzly, the first platform that empowers developers to both monetize their apps and earn revenue from hosting relevant ads—think of it as the Google Ads for AI conversations. While the market for AI applications is booming, many developers find themselves facing a significant hurdle: how to monetize their creations without disrupting user experience. Traditional subscription models or paywalls can alienate users and stifle engagement. This is where Monetzly steps in to create a win-win scenario for develo…  ( 7 min )

Introduction A while back I was given a list of books to read in order to become a world class software engineer.One of these books was A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. As the title implies, this book describes a way to design software. I would add how to design software that is easy to maintain. As experienced engineers know, software engineering isn't just about creating software. User requirements may change in the future and new features may need to be added,bugs may be discovered in the existing functionality or changes in the existing codebase to make the code more efficient may be needed. However, changing the existing codebase to incorporate these changes may interrupt existing functionality. This usually occurs because the code written was complex in the first p…  ( 9 min )

Hey fellow developers! I just released a Laravel package that makes it easy to add a database-driven chatbot to your applications. Features include: Keyword-based Q&A with AND/OR logic Conditional responses and session variables Buttons and dynamic replies Admin UI to manage intents/questions Floating web chat widget or embedded web page API support for programmatic messaging Whether you want a customer support bot, FAQ bot, or just an interactive chat, this package has you covered. 🎥 Check out the demo video here: LinkedIn Video 📦 Get it on Packagist: Laravel Chatbot  ( 6 min )

This blog summary traces my journey from using AI as a simple code generator to leveraging it as a strategic architect and product owner. By refining my prompting strategies and treating the AI as an expert consultant, I unlocked higher-quality outputs, critical analysis, and automated quality assurance. My journey began with functional, context-heavy requests. I realized early on that providing the AI with the "big picture" was crucial for productivity. The Contextual Foundation: Instead of asking for snippets, I started by asking the AI to "Analyze the codebase to generate guiding instructions for AI agents.". This ensured the AI understood the architecture, workflows, and conventions before writing a single line of code. Formatting vs. Architecting: Initially, I used the AI for lower-…  ( 8 min )

One of the most common questions I get is: "Should I use the Async Pipe or subscribe manually?" The answer is: Use the Async Pipe whenever possible. Subscribe manually only when necessary. Here is the breakdown of both approaches. If you simply need to display data from an API on the screen, do not subscribe in your TypeScript file. Pass the stream directly to the template. Why? Automatic Cleanup: Angular handles the unsubscription. Cleaner Code: No ngOnInit or ngOnDestroy needed. OnPush Compatible: Works great with performance optimizations. {{ data.title }} Sometimes, you can't use the pipe. Maybe you need to assign the data to a local variable to modify it, or send it to an analytics service. In this case, you must manage the memory yourself. The safest way is the takeUntil pattern. export class MyComponent implements OnDestroy { // 1. The Signal: Create a Subject to act as the "killer" private destroy$ = new Subject(); constructor(private dataService: DataService) {} ngOnInit(): void { this.dataService.getData() // 2. The Guard: Keep stream alive UNTIL destroy$ emits .pipe(takeUntil(this.destroy$)) .subscribe(response => { this.data = response; // Logic happens here (e.g. calculations, logging) this.calculateTotals(response); }); } ngOnDestroy(): void { // 3. The Trigger: Signal the subject to complete this.destroy$.next(); this.destroy$.complete(); } } Summary: Displaying data? Async Pipe. Processing logic? Manual Subscription + takeUntil. Don't mix them up, and your app will run smooth as butter.  ( 7 min )

SEO: Geotracking, coverage, Visual Positioning System (VPS), ARCore, Geospatial API, ARKit, AR, 街景定位, 视觉定位 太长不看： 调用官方 checkAvailability 方法 通过苹果地图 Look Around 来确定街景地图覆盖地区 查询苹果图像收集网站列表 Apple 在 ARKit 4 时期推出了基于街景的 AR 定位服务，通过综合摄像头采集的图像、设备 GPS、以及所在地的地图信息，来更加精确地确定当前所处的位置。因为街景地图都经过了“地理配准”——即所有街景图可以被认为其对应的地理位置坐标都是准确的，因此，通过比较摄像头画面与街景地图，即可通过视觉算法匹配到摄像头所处的位置坐标。 在使用这项服务时，一定会用到 ARGeoTrackingConfiguration 这个类。其中，它涉及到判断设备当前所处位置是否支持街景定位服务。在这项功能刚推出的2020年左右，ARGeoTrackingConfiguration 文档的 Supported areas and cities 里面列出了当时该服务支持的区域。当时，几乎只有美国和世界几个主要城市的核心区域支持该项服务，如果没记错的话，包括纽约、旧金山、洛杉矶、芝加哥、巴黎、新加坡等地。随着时间的推移，支持的地点数量逐渐变多。直到2023年末的一天，我在查看文档时突然发现，支持城市列表不见了！ 直到今天，许多有关的文档仍指向这个文档的列表 For a list of supported areas and cities, see ARGeoTrackingConfiguration. 然而，在最初的城市列表无处寻觅时，应该如何确定某个地区是否支持街景定位呢？ 其实，这个列表逐渐与“苹果图像收集”项目合为一体，其网址在：https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection 。可以看到，经过几年的发展，苹果地图逐渐羽翼丰满，几乎所有美国主要城市都有街景地图支持了。 另外，文档里提供了两个 checkAvailability 方法，用来确定当前设备位置/某一坐标是否支持街景定位。 class func checkAvailability(completionHandler: @escaping (Bool, (any Error)?) -> Void) 最后，苹果地图如今也支持街景地图功能了。点击左下角望远镜标识的“Look Around”功能，就能查看附近的街景地图。理论上，支持街景地图的街道也应支持街景定位。 未完待续……  ( 6 min )

When people hear that I studied Architecture for my BSc, they’re always surprised when I introduce myself today as a Software Engineer. But in reality, the transition wasn’t as strange as it sounds. I spent years learning architectural design, drawings, modelling, building science and how to bring concepts to life. Architecture teaches structure, logic, precision and the importance of breaking big ideas into small, buildable units. Funny enough… At some point during my degree, I realized I enjoyed creating, but not just buildings. I wanted something more dynamic, something that allowed me to build faster, explore ideas quickly and bring solutions to life without waiting months or years. I discovered programming accidentally. instant creation. Transitioning wasn’t smooth: I had to learn to …  ( 10 min )

I often say this program changed my life — and I mean it in the deepest, most genuine way. It has shaped my personal and professional growth in ways I never imagined as someone just exploring AWS. My journey with AWS Community Builders began back in 2020, when I was invited to join while still an AWS Student Ambassador. At that time, I was just a kid fascinated by cloud, clueless about communities, and excited by every new AWS announcement. I had no idea how profoundly this program would impact my life. The Early Days — When Everything Was Raw, Chaotic, and Beautiful When I joined, the program was very different from what it is today. Back then: People would drop questions randomly in Slack. A few of us would jump on quick calls to help each other out. I myself asked countless technical …  ( 10 min )

If you’re using Makefiles — add a make help command. Simple hack, huge productivity boost. help: @awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} \ /^#/ {comment=substr($$0,3)} \ /^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+:/ {printf "\033[36m%-20s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, comment}' Makefile  ( 6 min )

SQL Server 2025 has been officially announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and is now generally available. It had been in public preview since May of 2025 and consumers have been eagerly anticipating the official release of one of Microsoft's most popular software products. I had previous written a fun article where I used AI and historical date like previews, events, and past release dates to try and guess the release date of SQL Server 2025. Now it's finally here, and with it comes a whole host of highly anticipated features, most notably AI integration. Built-in AI & vector search SQL Server 2025 adds native support for vector-stores/indexing (via DiskANN) enabling semantic search over large datasets. You can combine traditional keyword SQL queries with vector‐based search in one engin…  ( 7 min )

Cara Hapus Atau Nonaktifkan akun Indodana Untuk membatalkan layanan Indodana (baik pinjaman tunai atau transaksi PayLater), Anda harus menghubungi whatsapp+62822193377) layanan pelanggan resmi Indodana secara langsung. Tidak ada opsi pembatalan instan melalui aplikasi.  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CSP is an HTTP header that tells browsers "only run scripts from these trusted sources." It's your defense against XSS attacks where hackers inject malicious JavaScript into your site. Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what breaks, fix inline scripts by adding nonce attributes, whitelist external domains you trust, then enforce with Content-Security-Policy. Test using Google's CSP Evaluator. Avoid 'unsafe-inline' and 'unsafe-eval' like the plague—they defeat the whole purpose. https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/content-security-policy/ So you've been building web apps for years, and suddenly someone mentions "CSP" in a code review or security audit. Don't worry—I was in the same boat not long ago. Here's the deal: CSP (Content Security Policy) is basically a b…  ( 13 min )

Creating test cases has always been one of the most time-consuming tasks in software development. QA teams spend countless hours manually translating requirements into test steps, often struggling to cover all edge cases or keep up with frequent product updates. That’s where leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning can generate test cases automatically, map requirements to scenarios, and even update tests as code changes occur. Today, over 40% of QA teams have already adopted AI-powered testing tools, with test-generation models producing scripts with up to 85% accuracy and reducing execution time by around 30%. These tools aren’t just a productivity booster; they are transforming how teams approach testing. In this guide, we’ll break down the best AI test case gen…  ( 16 min )

Cincinnati holds the distinction of being the first in the United States to establish a municipal fire department in 1853, as well as the first to install a fire‑station pole. This marked a turning point in the history of firefighting, as the new technology of the steam pump let small dedicated groups of professionals stop fires much faster than ever before. But the arrival of the steam pump was not immediately embraced by the public, as many people distrusted this new disruptive technology. Over 120 years later, we are once again seeing defenders leveraging new technology, namely AI, that is also being met with a lot of skepticism. This parallel made "Cincy" the perfect backdrop for hackers to get together to talk security and trends at Queen City Con 0x3. Hundreds of security pros, compl…  ( 11 min )

Meta's finally doing it. After two years of watching Threads grow to 200+ million users while sitting on a goldmine of ad inventory, they're opening the floodgates in Q1 2026. And look, I get the excitement. New platform, untapped audience, CPMs that don't make your CFO cry. But here's the thing: being an early adopter doesn't mean throwing money at every new ad product Meta ships. (Remember Reels ads in 2021? Yeah, some of us paid $40 CPMs to learn that lesson.) The smart play isn't rushing in. It's moving deliberately with a framework that accounts for what we actually know versus what we're guessing about. Threads isn't Twitter. It's not LinkedIn. And it's definitely not Instagram with words. The user behavior here leans conversational and community-driven. People show up for ongoing di…  ( 11 min )

Introduction If you’re building a simple landing page, portfolio, or SaaS website, chances are you need a contact form. But here’s the catch: HTML forms don’t work on their own. For many developers, especially beginners, setting up a backend just to handle a form feels like unnecessary work. And that’s why thousands search for things like “HTML form without backend” every month. In this guide, you’ll learn exactly how to handle HTML form submissions without building your own backend, using formgrid.dev Setting up a backend just to collect form submissions comes with a lot of overhead: You need a server (Node, PHP, Python, etc.) You need routing, validation, and spam protection You must configure email notifications You need a database to store submissions You must worry about …  ( 8 min )

I just released a new beginner-friendly challenge on ReactChallenges — and it’s completely free! 🎧 Equalizer Challenge (Beginner – FREE) You’ll build an animated equalizer made of multiple bars that update every few milliseconds. It’s a fun, visual way to practice core React skills: No prior React experience needed beyond the basics. As always, the challenge includes: www.reactchallenges.com/challenges/35 (The challenge is fully open — no account required.) Hope you enjoy it! If you know someone learning React, feel free to share it 🙌  ( 6 min )

Overview An interrupt is a hardware signalling mechanism used by peripherals to asynchronously notify the processor of events. At the electrical level, a device asserts a signal—traditionally through a physical interrupt pin, or in modern PCIe systems through MSI/MSI-X messages. Hardware flow for a line-based interrupt: +-----------+ IRQ Line +----------------+ Vector +---------+ | Device |------------>| Interrupt Ctrl |---------->| CPU | | (e.g WiFi)| | (APIC/GIC) | | Core n | +-----------+ +----------------+ +---------+ (asserts level/edge) (maps line→vector) | v Interrupt Entry A peripheral …  ( 10 min )

TL;DR: I built an ethical, open-source scanner called FleaMarket that finds exposed API keys in fresh GitHub repos. In a recent scan, it discovered live Google/Gemini keys in public .env files — and I helped owners secure them before any abuse occurred. API keys in public code are like leaving your house keys under the doormat. Even if you think no one will look — bots do. Thousands of keys are scraped every hour, leading to: Unexpected cloud bills (Stripe, Google Cloud, AWS) Data exfiltration Account takeovers While GitHub’s native secret scanning blocks many leaks, new keys still slip through — especially in non-standard files like .env.vercel, .env.backup, or examples. So I built FleaMarket: a lightweight, ethical secret hunter focused on fresh, high-risk repositories. FleaMarket is a P…  ( 8 min )

At Mapbox, we’ve been shipping a ton of new developer tutorials to help you get started and level up as you integrate our maps and location services into your web and mobile apps. But first: 🔥 We launched a brand-new step-by-step tutorial UI. It’s cleaner, more focused, and way easier to follow as you move through code, concepts, and hands-on tasks. Below is the full list of new and refreshed tutorials — grouped by platform so you can jump right into the stack you’re working with. React, Angular, Vue & GL JS Dynamic Markers & Popups in React https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/dynamic-markers-react/ POI Search in React (Search Box API) https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/poi-search-react/ Toggle Layers with Checkboxes (React) https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/rea…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR Imagine if you could convert your Figma designs into production-ready React + Material UI code faster than you can grab a coffee. In this guide, you will learn how to convert Figma designs into production-ready React code in minutes using Kombai, a specialized frontend AI agent that's about to become your new best friend. Before we jump in, here is what we will cover: What is Kombai? Setting up the Kombai AI Agent in your IDE (VS Code, Cursor, etc.) Connecting Figma with Kombai Adding Figma design to Kombai Configuring your tech stack Reviewing code generation plan Running & previewing your app using Kombai browser Here is a preview of the final results. What is Kombai? Kombai is an AI agent purpose-built for frontend development. It generates beautifu…  ( 13 min )

⚠️ When Your Voting Rights Become a Weapon for Cybercriminals 🔒 Your Vote Is Yours — Don’t Give It Away to a Stranger “Not every ‘verification call’ protects your vote — some steal your identity.” 🖊️ SHUBHRA • 19th November, 2025 • Indian Cyber Fraud Awareness & Mobile Malware Prevention It’s 7:45 PM. Your phone rings. “Sir/Madam, I’m calling from the Election Office regarding your SIR verification. It’s mandatory. Please confirm the OTP you just received. And download the SIR APK I send you — it’s required for voter list verification.” The caller sounds trained. Your details match. The caller ID looks official. You share the OTP. You install SIR.apk. And just like that… your phone stops being your phone. Within minutes: Your SMSes are mirrored Your OTPs are hijacke…  ( 8 min )

Introduction : What the F is this? If you're getting into OTT (Over-The-Top) streaming development (whether for Smart TVs, web platforms, streaming startups or whatever crazy project you are working on), understanding video players is a must. This article explains, in a beginner-friendly way: ✔ What a video player actually does HLS and MPEG-DASH, as well as what DRM is What Exactly Is a Web Video Player? A web video player is the part of a streaming app that: Displays the video (of course 🤦) Controls playback (play/pause/seek) Loads segments over the internet Manages adaptive streaming (quality changes) Handles DRM (if required; More on this in a future article) Under the hood, a player works on top of HTMLVideoElement, and may rely on: MSE (Media Source Extensions) → lets the player…  ( 9 min )

SQLAlchemy and Alembic give you a safer, more controlled way to evolve your schema over time. In the FastOpp Country Store project, that shows up when you do something simple but dangerous in real life: add a new column to an existing table in SQLite. Can you migrate your data without blowing everything up? This tutorial follows the flow of the “FastOpp Country Store 05 – Add New Column to SQL Table” video. You will: Change a SQLModel database model in FastOpp (SQLModel runs on top of SQLAlchemy) Create and run database migrations (via Alembic under the hood) Fix a real migration error from SQLite I've been working with Django for a number of years on multiple projects for clients. I just got a breakthrough understanding working on a project called FastOpp. The big realization was this: Wh…  ( 10 min )

Software developers are the ones who invent the technologies we sometimes take for granted. For instance, that website helps you to track, notify and motivate you about your financial activities. A software developer helped design that. And when you take your smartphone into the hands, clicking and scrolling through social media, music, email, and your personal calendar - software developers had a big hand in shaping those, too. You might spend some time online shopping, and before you make that big purchase, you check your bank account balance using your banking app. Later, you're cooking a new recipe from that great app your friend told you about. As you look over the course of your day, you come to see that software developers are the masterminds behind the technologies you now can't ev…  ( 7 min )

Kirby Air Riders’ “Starlit Journey” Breakdown 8bitMusicTheory dives into the main theme “Starlit Journey” from Kirby Air Riders, dissecting its intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and final choruses to show why it feels so joy-packed. Each section gets its own timestamp—0:00 for the theme, 0:59 intro, 2:47 verse, 5:56 chorus, 9:51 bridge, and 10:47 for the grand finale—so you can jump straight to your favorite part. If you’re all about retro game music and want more deep dives (plus merch, Patreon perks, Discord hangouts, and Twitter updates), the creator’s got you covered with handy links to their community and support pages. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

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Some people already know JavaScript. A one-size-fits-all roadmap simply doesn’t work in 2026. So I created a roadmap that does two things: It gives you a clear step-by-step path. It adapts to your skill level, time, and learning goals using AI. If I had to start frontend development from scratch today, this is exactly the path I’d follow. Let’s get into it. If I were starting again, I would not begin with a framework. I’d learn the three fundamentals deeply: ✔ HTML — the structure Learn semantic elements, forms, document flow, accessibility basics. ✔ CSS — the visuals Master Flexbox, Grid, responsive design, layouts, spacing, and animations. ✔ JavaScript — the logic Get comfortable with DOM manipulation, events, fetch, promises, async/await, and modular code. Once you understand these thre…  ( 8 min )

For most of us, the internet just works. We open an app, tap a button, and expect it to respond. We rarely think about the layers behind it. Servers, routing, caching, security, global networks. They stay invisible until something cracks. That is why the outages this October and November felt so serious. AWS went down on the 20th. Azure followed on the 29th. Then on November 18, Cloudflare failed around the world. In less than thirty days, three of the biggest cloud providers stumbled. When they did, a large part of the internet stumbled with them. ChatGPT stopped responding. X showed endless error pages. PayPal could not process payments. Uber Eats orders froze in progress. League of Legends kicked players out of matches. Canva users lost unsaved work. Even Downdetector, the site everyone…  ( 8 min )

Working remotely as a developer has become the norm, but having the right tools can make the difference between just surviving and truly thriving. Here are 10 completely free resources that have become essential for remote developers in 2025. Still the gold standard for code editors. Free, extensible, and with a massive plugin ecosystem. If you're not using it yet, you're missing out on thousands of productivity-boosting extensions. Beyond just version control, GitHub offers free private repositories, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and GitHub Pages for hosting. Essential for any developer. StreamBackdrops provides 500+ professional virtual backgrounds specifically optimized for video calls. Unlike generic stock photos, these are designed with proper camera angles and lighting for Zoom, Teams, a…  ( 7 min )

‘Weird Science’ Rewatchables Deep Dive Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt revisit John Hughes’s 1985 cult classic Weird Science, breaking down everything from its wild “sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, chips, dips, chains, whips” energy to the on-screen chemistry of Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. Expect their signature mix of nostalgia, pop-culture trivia and hilarious hot takes on the film’s most unforgettable moments. Produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, this episode is proudly sponsored by State Farm’s Personal Price Plan®. Don’t miss more Ringer content—subscribe to The Ringer-Verse and Bill Simmons YouTube channels, visit theringer.com, or follow on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

AWS just released flat-rate plans for CloudFront and related services, wrapping together WAF, Route53, CloudFront Function, logging, and more. Sounds tempting, especially with a free tier. You can read more about AWS's announcement on their blog. Is it really worth it? AWS has announced four pricing tiers: Free, Pro ($15/month), Business ($200/month), and Premium ($1,000/month). Of course, each has different capabilities and limits included. I had thought about creating a big table to compare what's available, but it quickly got too complicated. You can check out AWS's non-marketing comparison of features by pricing tiers in their documentation. I do want to call out a few things that are included and excluded from some of the lower tiers. I'm not going to focus as much on the Business and…  ( 9 min )

Hello, Today I want to share with you very quick tutorial. If you are developer like me, you know that the deployment can be a headache. We always search for the easiest way to put our code online. Usually, I use Heroku or Vercel, but last years I moved to DigitalOcean App Platform and it is amazing. It is very fast and professional. Many people think DigitalOcean it expensive, but if you want , you can host your Node.js and MongoDB application for free (using the free credits). Here is how to make it in just 5 minutes. What you need before we starting A GitHub account: Your code must be push to a repository for example we will use this open source erp crm based on nodejs react : https://github.com/idurar/idurar-erp-crm DigitalOcean Account: If you don't have one, you can get $200 free cr…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Reaching high accuracy on standard benchmarks like CIFAR-100 is challenging. In this article, I show how I trained a ResNet-50 with PyTorch to achieve 84.35% test accuracy and provide a production-ready repository with a live Streamlit demo. GitHub & Demo: cifar100-classification CIFAR-100: 100 fine-grained categories, only 500 images per class → hard to classify. ResNet-50: classic, widely adopted, and great for transfer learning. Public ResNet-50 implementations rarely exceed ~81% on CIFAR-100; hitting 84.35% is rare and significant. High class similarity → tough separation Limited images → risk of overfitting Mid-range GPU constraints → careful optimization needed Architecture: Pretrained ResNet-50 (ImageNet), modified final layer for 100 classes Training: OneCycleLR scheduling for fast convergence Progressive fine-tuning: FC only → Layers 3&4 + FC → Full model Mixed-precision training & checkpointing Data Augmentation: Resize → ColorJitter → RandomHorizontalFlip RandomRotation (±15°) → RandomAffine → GaussianBlur → RandomErasing Mixup α=0.8 & CutMix α=0.8 (p=0.5) Label smoothing Metric Value Test Accuracy 84.35% Test Loss 0.7622 Best Val Loss 0.9729 Epochs 66 Even on mid-range GPUs like NVIDIA GTX 1650 (~15.5 hours), this setup achieved state-of-the-art ResNet-50 results on CIFAR-100. Streamlit app lets you upload images and get predictions + confidence scores. Repo structure: cifar100-classification/ ├── app.py ├── train.ipynb ├── requirements.txt ├── README.md ├── model_checkpoint.pth └── ... Classic architectures + modern tricks (augmentation, LR scheduling) can outperform expectations Sets a practical benchmark for ResNet-50 on CIFAR-100 Next steps: ResNet-101, EfficientNet, ViT, larger datasets, API or edge deployment Share with fellow ML & CV enthusiasts Modify augmentations or architecture and test Comment your results — can we push beyond 85%?  ( 7 min )

Introduction HTML is the backbone of the web. Whether you’re building a simple landing page or architecting a complex web application, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the first language you encounter. It defines the structure of web content and acts as the foundation upon which CSS and JavaScript bring style and interactivity. In this article, we’ll explore what HTML is, how it came to be, its role in modern web development, and the core syntax every developer should know—all backed by examples to solidify the concepts. HTML was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 while he was working at CERN. His goal was simple yet revolutionary: to build a way for researchers to share documents across different systems using hyperlinks. Key milestones in HTML’s evolution: HTML 1.0 (1991–1995) – The…  ( 8 min )

In the rapidly evolving landscape of social media intelligence and digital marketing, access to accurate, real-time data has become the cornerstone of successful campaigns and research initiatives. The Twitter/X Scraper represents a powerful solution designed to bridge the gap between data availability and actionable insights, offering professionals a comprehensive toolkit for extracting valuable information from one of the world's most influential social platforms.​ The Twitter/X Scraper distinguishes itself through a robust array of capabilities that address the core needs of data professionals, researchers, and marketers. At its foundation, the tool enables users to scrape both followers and following lists of any Twitter/X user, providing a complete picture of social network structures…  ( 9 min )

If you like patching vulnerabilities, the new Puppet Core 8.16.0 release is right up your alley! This update is all about strengthening your infrastructure’s security, with several important library upgrades and vulnerability patches. Here are the new versions of dependencies that have been released to address vulnerabilities: Thor gem 1.4.0: Addresses CVE-2025-54314 Curl 8.16.0: Addresses CVE-2025-0986, CVE-2025-10148 REXML gem 3.4.2: Addresses CVE-2025-58767 OpenSSL 3.0.18: Addresses CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9232 Patched URI gem in the Puppet agent: Addresses CVE-2025-61594 Security is a moving target, and keeping your configuration management tools patched is essential for protecting your systems. This release ensures Puppet Core users are protected against the latest disclosed vulnerabilities in widely used libraries. Review the full release notes for details on all changes and CVE references: https://help.puppet.com/core/current/Content/PuppetCore/PuppetReleaseNotes/release_notes_puppet_x-8-16-0.htm  ( 6 min )

As markets become more complex and data-driven, active traders need more than intuition to stay ahead. The days of relying solely on a gut feeling are over; disciplined analysis and continuous improvement are key to long-term success. Keeping a trading journal helps identify patterns in your behavior and the market. By recording every trade across stocks, options, futures and forex, you can review what works and what doesn’t. Basic logs record entry and exit points, position size and P&L. However, without analysis these records become a pile of numbers. Modern analytics tools can answer deeper questions such as: Which symbols contribute most to your gains or losses? Does your performance vary by time of day or day of the week? How long do you tend to hold winning vs. losing trades? Are cer…  ( 7 min )

Rate limiting is essential for protecting APIs from abuse, ensuring fair resource allocation, and maintaining system stability. While there are existing solutions, I wanted to build something lightweight, performant, and easy to integrate into any Go project. Today, I'm sharing kazrl - a zero-dependency rate limiter library that implements three different algorithms and comes with ready-to-use middleware for popular Go web frameworks. Most rate limiting libraries either: Come with heavy dependencies Support only one algorithm Require complex setup for per-client limiting Lack middleware integration I needed something that: Has zero external dependencies Supports multiple algorithms (Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Sliding Window) Works with popular frameworks out of the box Provides flexible p…  ( 10 min )

The Critical Gap in Linux Security Linux is the undisputed foundation of modern infrastructure. It powers the cloud, financial markets, and global software supply chains. While open-source tools for network monitoring and observability have evolved to rival enterprise solutions, malware detection on Linux remains frozen in the 1990s, relying almost exclusively on signature-based matching. This gap is fatal because Linux servers function as the central nervous system of IT environments. They do not just run applications; they act as transit hubs that store and forward files for the entire network. A Linux server often hosts malicious payloads (like PE files) targeting Windows endpoints. Currently, we rely on these legacy tools to protect this pivotal layer. This leaves the global supply c…  ( 9 min )

On and off the platform. I hope to stay longer this time.  ( 6 min )

After yesterday's double exam + meeting combo that nearly killed me, today was... different. Woke up tired. Like really tired. The kind where your body just says "nope, we're done." So I listened. Kind of. Hit the gym. Needed to move after being stuck in exam halls. Worked out, had a protein shake, came back. And then? Slept. Not a nap. Actually slept. Woke up, remembered I had a project report due tomorrow, panicked for a bit, finished it. Then slept again. Got my phone repaired. Been putting that off for weeks. Just went and did it. Ate actual meals. Not just coffee and whatever's around. Moved around. Talked to people. Lived like a regular human for a few hours. It was weird. In a good way? Maybe? Of course, reality doesn't stop. Tomorrow: DBMS lab exam. Databases, SQL queries, normali…  ( 7 min )

Goo Goo Dolls proved why their anthemic rock and power-ballad blend has stuck around at NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. They kicked things off with “Slide,” revisited 2006’s hidden gem “Feel the Silence,” and rolled into the meditative “Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes)” before sealing the deal with the seismic rush of “Iris.” John Rzeznik’s signature velvet rasp carried every melody, while the band’s tight chemistry made the small studio feel like a sold-out arena. This stripped-down performance isn’t just nostalgia—it’s proof these songs live on as communal anthems, whether you’re belting them in your car, at karaoke night, or in NPR’s offices. Backed by Robby Takac on bass, Jimmy McGorman on keys, Brad Fernquist on guitar, and Craig Macintyre on drums, the Goo Goo Dolls turned a 15-minute set into a heartfelt connection. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Two Streams of Creation Sometimes the world tilts in ways we do not notice at first, Every mind carries two forces that shape the way it meets complexity. Noise is younger and louder. Both forces exist in everyone, but modern culture amplifies one at the expense of the other. Yet in the AI era, these two forces no longer feel abstract. The divide between them is not philosophical anymore. One stream leads toward understanding. Noise is not random. Developers grow inside this environment. This architecture collapses under real complexity. Noise gathers where patience fades, seizing the space that once shaped understanding. Depth moves differently than noise. This mindset is not natural in the modern world. Depth also welcomes friction. And in the AI era, depth becomes more than a virtue. …  ( 9 min )

I think most of the full-stack devs would agree with me when I say that developing anything related to datagrids is a challenging task with or without coding agents. Recently I had an idea that involves agents and tool calling in datagrid interfaces - surpise ;). And after extensive research found out that most of the opensource datagrids/tables wouldn't work for what I want to create. The kind of situation when either it is not scalable enough or it would require to rewrite it anyway. So I've decided to create my own datagrid. A perfect opportunity to create something w\o leagacy bagage and use Deno in a serious project. And also Preact - something I wanted to use in a real project but nver had a chance. So what can I say? In my opinion Preact and Preact Signals are severely uderrated among the devs. I think it's a brand issue - Preact, you should re-brand. Preact with signals is more than "just react alternative" Seriously, if you're able to see past boilerplates in react tutorials you should try it. Deno is as good as advertised. Especially for 0-legacy projects. I watched Deno projects for a couple years and experimented with it a lot. Only good impressions so far. About my datagrid. If you previously developed feature-rich data tables you understand the challenges. If not, you should know that it's not as simple as it seems. The project itself is currently pre-alpha, but it is live and clickable. Most features are in the context menu and currently most feature-rich instance is here: https://table.vski.ai/flat (also supports standard key bindings [cmd+/] instruction mode) Github: https://github.com/vski-ai/table , it is not fully opensource because no one knows about it yet and I am not sure there are people or companies who would take much interest in yet another "just a table" component at this stage.  ( 7 min )

What separates a 2% conversion rate from a 6% conversion rate in sales outreach? Not hustle. Not personality. Not even product quality. After reviewing over 300 successful cold outreach campaigns, the answer is simpler than you'd expect: structure. The best performers follow a repeatable framework that most people simply don't know exists. Sales training teaches you to "personalize" and "solve pain points" and "build relationships." All true. All useless without a systematic approach to actually implementing those principles in every single pitch. Traditional sales development focuses on concepts without execution frameworks. You learn that customer-centric messaging works, but nobody hands you the template that ensures you're actually being customer-centric rather than just thinking you a…  ( 11 min )

Yesterday I thought it was bad. Today proved me wrong. Two lab exams. Same day. Back to back. PPL (Paradigms of Programming Languages) Prolog and OCaml. Functional programming. The kind of stuff that rewires your brain while you're trying to code under pressure. Data Structures Trees, graphs, algorithms. Writing code on paper or whiteboards while your hand cramps and you're praying you didn't mess up the syntax. Both of them, one after another, no break. I walked out of that exam hall feeling like I'd been through a war. Brain completely fried. Eyes hurting. Just wanted to go home and do nothing. Oh yeah, I had a Smart India Hackathon meeting right after. Not later that day. Not the next day. IMMEDIATELY after. So there I am, zombie mode activated, sitting in a meeting where people are e…  ( 7 min )

Introduction: When JavaScript Gets Tricky Sometimes you stumble upon a tiny snippet of JavaScript and immediately feel like the language is testing your sanity: Take the example below: Example 1: for (var i = 1; i console.log(i), 1000); } What do you think it prints? 1 2 3, 3 3 3, or 4 4 4? If you guessed 1 2 3 or 3 3 3, don’t feel too bad, you’ve just fallen into JavaScript’s classic “gotcha” trap. The actual output is: 4 4 4. You may ask, what is 4 business in all of this, how on earth is 4 console.log(i), 1000); } What do you think it prints? 1 2 3, 3 3 3, or 4 4 4? Surprise! It prints: 1 2 3 The difference? It’s all about ho…  ( 11 min )

The Search for a Native Engine As a developer who values performance and systems integrations, I felt limited by the common "Chat with DB" approach. That method often involves slow, external wrappers that pull data out of Postgres just to convert natural language into SQL. I wanted to know: why can't the database itself understand me?? My goal was a bit bold: to integrate AI directly into the Postgres kernel, making the database self-aware. This led me to a new domain, inspired by the ClickHouse open take-home challenge. The first major shock was realizing the true language of PostgreSQL extensions: C. This immediately created a conflict, as the powerful ClickHouse AI SDK I was required to use was written in C++. The Conflict: C++ is incompatible with C headers, but Postgres only provi…  ( 8 min )

Account Abstraction turns wallets into programmable smart accounts — In this breakdown, I explain: What ERC-4337 actually does EntryPoint + Bundler + Paymaster pipeline Why no client-side L1 changes were needed How this improves onboarding Practical examples for gaming, apps & wallets 🎥 Full video: [YouTube Link] — Kishan (Founder, OmniRadhaNexus)  ( 6 min )

1. Purpose and Commitment The company is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace for all employees. This Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Policy outlines the zero-tolerance approach to harassment, bullying, and discriminatory practices. The company strives to foster an environment where every employee feels valued, protected, and empowered to perform without fear of unfair treatment. Harassment includes any unwelcome behavior—verbal, physical, visual, or digital—that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. Examples include derogatory remarks, unwanted touching, offensive jokes, threats, stalking, or sharing inappropriate images. Harassment may occur between colleagues, supervisors, external clients, or any individuals engaged wit…  ( 7 min )

Modern CSS is amazing. It empowers us to build incredible experiences on the web, but as CSS becomes more powerful, we are beginning to see a new weak point. When I got my first job as a web developer, it was common to have to come up with different hacks to work around the limitations of CSS. Those times are long gone. Modern CSS is amazing. It has powerful layout algorithms, 3D transforms and an incredibly capable set of animation primitives. Most of the limitations of modern CSS don't actually have anything to do with its capabilities. Instead, it has to do with how we write it. For this reason, the future of CSS might not be text files, but visual editors. You might be ready to call blasphemy and close the tab in anger, but if you stick around i'll do my best to make the case. Read the full article here  ( 6 min )

Google just dropped Antigravity (their new Gemini-powered IDE), and naturally, I wanted to try it immediately. If you're on Arch, you probably already tried yay -S antigravity-bin and hit a wall of red text. Between the AUR servers getting hugged to death (Error 502) and the "Sign In" button refusing to actually sign you in, it's been a bit of a mess. I spent my morning figuring it out so you don't have to. Here is the proper way to get it installed and actually running. If you are lucky and the servers are up, just run: yay -S antigravity-bin Use this if yay is giving you timeouts or 502 errors. If the AUR helpers are choking, the manual git method works best. This is what finally worked for me when the servers were struggling. Clone the repository: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/antigravity-bin.git (Note: If the official AUR link is timing out, you can try finding a GitHub mirror, but usually git handles the connection better than yay). Enter the directory: cd antigravity-bin Build and Install: makepkg -si This pulls the .deb directly from Google's servers and packages it locally, bypassing most of the AUR traffic issues. Once installed, you’ll hit the main boss: The Login Screen. This is because the app's desktop file is missing the link handler. Here is the fix: Open the desktop file: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/antigravity.desktop Scroll to the bottom and add this line (or edit MimeType if it exists): MimeType=x-scheme-handler/antigravity; Save (Ctrl+O, Enter) and exit (Ctrl+X), then update the database: sudo update-desktop-database Now, when you click Sign In, your browser should prompt you to "Open Antigravity," and you're in. If you're on a window manager like Hyprland/Sway and the redirect still won't work: Log in via browser until you see the "Success" page. Copy the URL from your address bar (starts with antigravity://). Run this in your terminal: antigravity "PASTE_YOUR_URL_HERE" Let me know in the comments if this worked for you!  ( 7 min )

⭐ I Built TabClock — A Simple Chrome Extension That Shows How Long You Spend on Each Website For the last few months, I kept catching myself thinking: “I’ve only been on YouTube for a few minutes…” …and then realizing it had been way longer. So I built TabClock, a lightweight Chrome extension that helps you stay aware of your browsing habits by showing a live timer in the tab title for each website. No complexity, no dashboards, no accounts — just pure awareness. 🔗 Try it here: https://tabclock.site/ 💡 Why I built it I wanted something extremely simple: When I open a tab, I want to see exactly how long I’ve been on it If I switch tabs, the timer should pause Each site gets its own total time per day Everything stays locally in Chrome storage And it should look clean + lightweight This small thing surprisingly changed how I browse — the moment I see the time ticking, I automatically return to work faster. 🔍 What TabClock does ✔ Shows a live timer in the tab title It’s basically the “screen time for your browser,” but without the bulk. 🛠️ How I built it TabClock uses: Chrome Manifest V3 JavaScript + minimal DOM injection chrome.storage.sync for daily logs chrome.tabs + chrome.scripting APIs to inject timers A small popup UI built with HTML/CSS + Lucide icons I focused a lot on performance so it doesn’t drain CPU or cause flickering between tab switches. If anyone’s interested, I can publish a full technical breakdown or even open-source a simplified version. 🚀 Want to try it? If you want a small boost to your daily focus: 👉 Install TabClock on Chrome: https://tabclock.site/ (instant install, no signup) Would love your feedback, ideas, or optimizations! 🙌 Let’s connect If you’ve built something similar or are working on a productivity tool, I’d love to see it. Thanks for reading! 💙  ( 7 min )

Most people don’t quit investing because it’s hard. They quit because the monitoring feels impossible — too much noise, too many metrics, too many apps, too many alerts, too many emotional spikes. A good portfolio doesn’t need constant attention. A good system makes attention unnecessary. The real solution isn’t a better dashboard. It’s a simpler monitoring architecture that prevents overwhelm, reduces anxiety, and keeps your long-term plan intact without demanding your time or emotional bandwidth. Here’s how to build a portfolio monitoring system that actually feels peaceful. Start With the Principle: Monitor for Meaning, Not Movement Stock prices move constantly. Your goals don’t. The biggest reason people feel overwhelmed is because they’re monitoring movement, not meaning. A calm por…  ( 8 min )

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Introduction One-time password (OTP) verification has become essential in mobile applications for secure user authentication. While several libraries offer OTP components, they often fall short of delivering a polished user experience akin to popular apps like WhatsApp and Paytm. This article guides you through creating a custom, animated OTP Input component in React Native that offers a sleek, user-friendly interface. Smooth Cursor Blink Animation Shake Animation for Invalid OTP Auto-Focus & Smart Backspace Navigation Countdown Timer with Resend OTP Feature Native-Looking Input Boxes Without External UI Libraries Easy Integration with Any Parent Screen Our OTP component aims to be: Modern in Appearance: Rounded input boxes with smooth transitions. Intelligent in Behavior: Auto-focus on …  ( 8 min )

Most budgeting advice still assumes you want to spend hours in spreadsheets, color-code categories, and manually track every transaction. But in real life? You’re busy. You’re tired. And your spending plan needs to survive weeks when you’re overwhelmed — not just the weeks when you’re motivated. This is where AI becomes the quiet superpower in your financial life. It can stress-test your spending plan in minutes, without a single formula or cell reference, and show you exactly how your budget holds up under real-world pressure. Here’s how to use AI to pressure-test your money routine in a way that’s simple, fast, and actually useful. Start With the Core Question: “What Breaks When Life Isn’t Perfect?” Most budgets only work in ideal conditions: predictable income low-stress weeks stable …  ( 8 min )

REMI Evolved: Beyond the Agentic Postgres Challenge Introduction REMI was originally submitted to the Agentic Postgres Challenge (DEV/Tiger, November 2025). Since then, the project has evolved significantly, surpassing its initial scope and becoming a fully auditable and secure patrimonial agent. Challenge version (2025-11-09): Basic patrimonial tables Initial technical view Event insertion Evolved version (current): Automatic auditing with functions and triggers Encrypted and signed patrimonial backups Clear roles and ACLs (remi_reader, remi_writer) Active patrimonial memory and filtered views Master key and auditable rotation Repository integrity seal Trigger example: CREATE TRIGGER log_publicacion_auditoria AFTER INSERT ON publicaciones_remi FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION log_publicacion_auditoria(); GPG-encrypted dumps Verifiable SHA256 hashes Signed commits and tags Coming soon on Tiger Cloud: /publicaciones /auditoria /estado We invite the community to explore the evolved version of REMI, test the demo, and share suggestions. REMI not only fulfilled the challenge, but surpassed it — continuing to grow as a secure, auditable patrimonial agent. REMI has evolved beyond its original submission to the Agentic Postgres Challenge. This post documents its transformation into a fully auditable, secure, and operationally transparent agent.  ( 6 min )

Original: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/genai-for-engineers-what-s-real-what-s-not-and-what-s-coming By the end of this post, you’ll understand: The new engineering landscape GenAI has created Practical best practices for leveraging GenAI in your work Mistakes and misconceptions you absolutely want to avoid Inspiring tools and frameworks that are already changing the game What’s on the horizon, both thrilling and a little overwhelming Let’s get started! You know the feeling—everyone’s suddenly talking about automation, agents, and how AI is about to revolutionize everything. You read about companies “eliminating jobs” thanks to GenAI, and you’re wondering… Is this really happening? Is this a threat, or is it a huge opportunity? If you’ve ever sat with those questions, you’re in good co…  ( 11 min )

When building or testing web applications on Azure, creating a Windows Server VM and installing Internet Information Services (IIS) is a fundamental skill. IIS is Microsoft’s web server platform used for hosting websites and web applications. This guide walks you through creating a Windows VM, connecting using RDP, installing IIS, and verifying your setup. Sign in to the Azure Portal Navigate to Virtual Machines → Create Size: Standard B1s or higher Choose Authentication type: Password or Azure AD login In the Networking tab:Ensure RDP port 3389 is open for remote access Ensure RDP port 3389 is open for remote access Disable Monitoring Click Review + Create, then Create Once deployment completes: Go to the VM Overview page Increase idle time Click Connect → RDP Download the .rdp …  ( 7 min )

REMI Superada: evolución tras el Agentic Postgres Challenge Introducción Cuando participamos en el Agentic Postgres Challenge (DEV/Tiger, noviembre 2025), REMI fue publicado en su versión inicial. Desde entonces, el proyecto ha evolucionado y alcanzado un nivel superior de desarrollo. Versión reto (2025-11-09): Tablas patrimoniales básicas Vista técnica inicial Inserción de eventos Versión superada (actual): Auditoría automática con funciones y triggers Respaldo patrimonial cifrado y firmado Roles y ACLs claros (remi_reader, remi_writer) Memoria patrimonial activa y vista filtrada Clave maestra y rotación auditable Sello de integridad del repositorio Ejemplo de trigger: CREATE TRIGGER log_publicacion_auditoria AFTER INSERT ON publicaciones_remi FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION log_publicacion_auditoria(); Dumps cifrados con GPG Huellas SHA256 verificables Commits y tags firmados Próximamente disponible en Tiger Cloud: /publicaciones /auditoria /estado Invitamos a la comunidad a revisar la versión superada de REMI, probar la demo y aportar sugerencias. REMI no solo cumplió con el reto, sino que lo superó y sigue creciendo como agente patrimonial auditable y seguro.  ( 6 min )

โพสนี้เขียนโดย นาย กษิ ศรีสุวรรณ 6730614006 AISE ในการสร้างตัวคำนวณเบื้องต้นสำหรับคาดเดาหุ้น ณ ตอนนี้ ผมได้นำ LSTM หรือในชื่อ Long short-term memmory ซึ่งเป็น Algorithm ที่อยู่ใน Supervised Learning ในหัวข้อย่อย Neural Network ซึ้งพัฒนามาจาก RNN หรือ Recurrnt neural network ในความเข้าใจของผมตอนนี้ในหัวข้อ LSTM คือ Algorithm ที่แบ่งไปได้ 3 ส่วนคือ Forget gate คือ gate ที่จะตัดสินใจว่า ข้อมูลในเซลล์ควรถูกลืมหรือเก็บไว้ Input gate คือ gate ที่ตัดสินใจว่าจะนำข้อมูลใหม่เข้าเซลล์อย่างไร Output gate คือ gate ที่จะเป็นตัวเลือกข้อมูลที่จะแปลงจากเซลล์เป็น hidden state และส่ง และนี่คือแผนภาพของหน่วยการสร้าง LSTM  ( 6 min )

“Create tests without writing a single line of code!” “Automate faster than ever!” Empower manual testers to become automation heroes!” But as with most trends in tech, it’s fair to pause and ask: Are codeless test automation tools really worth the hype? Or are they just another shiny buzzword? Let’s break down the good, the bad, and everything in between — in a simple, conversational way. ## Why Codeless Automation Became So Popular Before we dive into pros and cons, let’s get one thing straight… Codeless automation didn’t rise because testers suddenly got allergic to code. Teams needed speed. Codeless tools stepped in and said… And naturally, people got interested. ** ** In simple words: It’s automation built using visual workflows, drag-and-drop components, prebuilt functions, or AI ass…  ( 9 min )

Every developer remembers the feeling: knowing just enough to be dangerous, getting stuck on small problems, and wishing a senior engineer could sit beside you and explain what’s really going on. In 2026, that mentor doesn’t need to be a person—you can now pair-program with an AI system that thinks, reasons, refactors, and explains like a seasoned engineer. This changes everything for beginners. Instead of waiting years to develop intuition, they gain it through daily, on-demand mentorship—the kind that accelerates growth far beyond what traditional learning environments can offer. Why Early Developers Struggle Without Senior Guidance Junior engineers typically get stuck on: understanding why something works, not just how learning how to structure features instead of patching functions n…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR After deploying 200+ AI projects in production over 3 years (2022-2025), I've seen the same patterns repeat: 80% of AI projects fail, not because of the technology, but because of organizational chaos, unrealistic expectations, and hidden costs that nobody talks about. This article breaks down: The 5 failure patterns I see systematically (with fix strategies) Real stack comparison: Make.com vs Zapier vs n8n, ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini Human-in-the-Loop architecture that actually scales True Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) — spoiler: it's 5-10x your API costs EU compliance (AI Act + GDPR) you can't ignore My background: 15 years in data/automation, founder of ENDKOO (Qualiopi-certified training org in Lyon, France), consultant for enterprises ranging from SMBs to CAC40 companies. Ave…  ( 15 min )

Developer education has always struggled to keep pace with the speed of technology. By the time a textbook is published—whether physical or digital—the frameworks have shifted, the best practices have evolved, and the real-world use cases have changed. In 2026, the gap between static materials and dynamic knowledge is wider than ever. AI is closing that gap. Not with more content, but with living, adaptive learning systems that transform how developers study, practice, and build. The future of developer education won’t be anchored in textbooks—it will be powered by responsive, intelligent tools that learn alongside you. Static Knowledge Doesn’t Fit a Dynamic Field Software engineering is a changing environment. New models, tools, and methods emerge at a rate no traditional curriculum can…  ( 8 min )

Saving money on your site can be smart — or a disaster. Here’s how to do it right. Do it smart, and you’ll improve efficiency and reduce costs. Do it wrong, and users leave, bugs pile up, and revenue drops. Save on underused tools, subscriptions, and bloated hosting. Don’t cut design, UX, or dev time—users hate it. Automate and monitor for real efficiency. Check your numbers: savings without data = guessing game. Introduction You want to save money on your website. Cool. But if your “savings” crash the site, slow down pages, or break checkout, that’s not smart—that’s tragic. So, where should you save, and where should you definitely not? Let’s break it down. Hosting you don’t use – If you’re paying for giant servers that sit idle most of the time, downsize or switch to …  ( 7 min )

Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer because the path to that data is slow: dashboards, spreadsheets, custom reports, Slack messages, and internal tools that all require different interfaces. A simple question like “Which deals are stalled?” can take 5–10 minutes of navigation. Worqlo tries to remove that friction by adding a conversational layer on top of enterprise workflows. Users ask questions in plain language, and Worqlo turns them into safe, deterministic actions across CRMs and internal tools. This post breaks down what Worqlo is for engineers, how it works under the hood, and why this model is becoming more practical than UI-driven workflows. Enterprise work is fragmented because every tool has its own UI. Engineers end up building: custom dashboard filters int…  ( 8 min )

Anyone else remember the good old days? Back in 2001, armed with VB6, classic ASP, and SQL 7.5, we meticulously crafted applications. Manuals were our Stack Overflow, UI standards were gospel, and a six-month design phase was just the process. Deployments involved a prayer and hoping someone in ops dropped the right files on the right servers. We were building, iterating, and sometimes, even making things better. Then a shift happened. The "how" started eclipsing the "what." Solving the tech problem became paramount, often at the expense of the business problem. "Faster and better" became the mantra, and the hole we dug got deep. The silo between development and operations birthed DevOps. Suddenly, servers were code, YAML and pipelines dictated deployments, and human error transformed into…  ( 8 min )

Most people know Wi-Fi only as a way to connect phones, laptops, and IoT devices to the internet. But Wi-Fi can do much more. Espressif’s ESP-CSI (Channel State Information) technology allows ESP32-series chips to “sense” what is happening in the environment using only Wi-Fi signals—no cameras, no radar, no extra sensors. Every Wi-Fi signal changes as it passes through a room. This makes it possible to detect: Human presence Motion Gestures Indoor positioning Environmental changes And all of this works using only an ESP chip and Wi-Fi. Normally, Wi-Fi devices only report RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), which is a single number representing signal strength. How each frequency of the Wi-Fi signal was changed. How much it was absorbed or reflected. How much noise is in the environm…  ( 8 min )

Hey everyone, I've been using AI editors like Cursor and Windsurf heavily lately. The biggest game-changer for me was using context files (.cursorrules or AGENTS.md) to stop the AI from hallucinating or using old syntax. But I found myself copy-pasting the same prompts over and over or forgetting to specify things like "use functional components" or "strict typing". So, I spent this afternoon building a simple Context Generator. How it works: It’s a simple wizard that asks you 10 questions about your project (Tech stack, Coding style, Testing preferences, Personality, etc.) and instantly generates the Markdown file ready to drop into your root folder. The Stack: React + Vite Tailwind CSS It's completely free, no sign-up required. I just wanted to solve this small friction point for myself and thought it might help you guys too. Link: https://aigenta.netlify.app/  ( 6 min )

GraphBit (Rust core + workflow graph + lock‑free concurrency) Execution engine Compiled Rust core schedules a WorkflowGraph with dependency awareness, spawning ready nodes concurrently Per‑node‑type concurrency with atomics (no global semaphore); fast‑path skips permits for simple nodes Python/Node bindings delegate to the Rust executor (low overhead orchestration) What this means Lower orchestration overhead, predictable scheduling, high throughput under load GraphBit scheduling of dependency‑ready nodes // Select nodes whose dependencies are all completed let mut ready_ids: Vec = Vec::new(); for nid in remaining.iter() { let deps = graph_clone.get_dependencies(nid); if deps.iter().all(|d| completed.contains(d)) { `ready_ids.push(nid.clone());` } } Spawnin…  ( 7 min )

This was one of my earliest mistakes in web development. I spent hours trying to center a div using flex… but I applied flex inside the div, not on its parent. So the text got centered — but the box itself never moved. 😭 Looking back, it’s funny. At that time, it felt frustrating. But small mistakes like this are exactly what taught me how CSS actually works. We all start somewhere. 👉 What was one beginner mistake you’ll never forget?  ( 6 min )

Over the past year my team and I have been building an AI product that needed to serve large LLM model files reliably, quickly, and privately. We assumed the existing tooling would “just work”: Git LFS Hugging Face repos S3 / MinIO generic object stores But once we started working with multi‑GB safetensors, gguf, ONNX, and datasets, everything broke in predictable and painful ways. This post explains the technical journey that led us to build Anvil — an open‑source, S3‑compatible, AI‑native object store built in Rust — and how we designed it around: Tensor‑level streaming Model‑aware indexing QUIC transport Erasure‑coded distributed storage Simple Docker deployment Multi‑region clustering gRPC APIs + S3 compatibility And why we decided to open source the entire project (Apac…  ( 8 min )

Tailwind CSS keeps evolving, and 2025 is all about efficiency, scalability, and maintainability. Let’s explore advanced tricks to level up your frontend without creating a mess of utility classes. @apply Instead of repeating classes, use @apply in your CSS or SCSS to create semantic, reusable patterns. ✅ Button variants ✅ Card layouts ✅ Responsive typography This gives you Tailwind speed without losing readability. Tailwind 3.5 allows arbitrary values for spacing, colors, and more. Example: bg-[color:var(--primary)] or mt-[22px]. This flexibility reduces the need for custom CSS while keeping the system consistent. Leverage tailwind.config.js for: Extending the theme Adding design tokens Managing breakpoints This keeps large projects maintainable and reduces visual inconsistencies across teams. Tailwind’s JIT compiler makes dark mode switching seamless and animations lightweight. Tips: Use dark: variants for components Animate layout changes with transition-all or motion-safe utilities Combine with Framer Motion for advanced interactions 💡 Workflow Tips Use extracting component classes to avoid huge inline class strings Pair Tailwind with Storybook for design system previews Adopt linting rules to enforce design consistency Tailwind isn’t just a utility library — it’s a scalable design framework when used thoughtfully. 📚 Tailwind CSS Docs 🧠 Tailwind @apply Guide 🛠️ Framer Motion Docs 🖼️ Frontend That Converts — Full Article 📲 Follow me for more dev tips, tools, and trends! 📸 Instagram: @tahamjp 🧠 Dev.to: @tahamjp 🐦 X.com: @tahamjp 💬 Telegram Channel: The Intelligent Interface 🔑 Interface Insider (exclusive): Join the community – share, learn, and collaborate with other members! Check out my latest dev articles and tutorials — updated weekly! Let’s keep building cool stuff 🚀  ( 7 min )

Задача Дан массив целых чисел. Значения могут быть только 0, 1 и 2. Нужно отсортировать на месте (без доп. памяти). Использовать библиотечные функции сортировки нельзя. Например, Input: nums = [2,0,2,1,1,0] Input: nums = [2,0,1] Ссылка на leetcode: https://leetcode.com/problems/sort-colors Сортировки вроде QuickSort, MergeSort не подходят, т.к. используют дополнительную память. QuickSort - O(log(n)) для рекурсии, MergeSort - O(n) для временного массива. Простые сортировки, вроде Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Selection Sort дополнительной памяти не требуют и работают за O(1), но временная сложность - O(n^2). Хотелось бы побыстрее. Сортировка подсчетом вроде подходит хорошо. У нас всего 3 возможных значения, поэтому можно вначале пройти циклом по массиву, посчитать, сколько у нас нулей, еди…  ( 9 min )

There's a moment in every developer's journey that quietly changes everything. It doesn't announce itself with fanfare. There's no certificate, no congratulatory email, no level-up notification. It happens when you're sitting there, staring at someone else's code—maybe it's a legacy codebase at your new job, maybe it's an open-source library you're trying to understand, maybe it's a pull request from a teammate—and suddenly, instead of seeing a wall of incomprehensible symbols, you start to see patterns. You see intent. You see the ghost of the developer who wrote it, their thought process, their constraints, their clever workarounds and their desperate hacks. You begin to read code the way you read a book, understanding not just what it says, but what it means. This is when you stop being…  ( 39 min )

Master 80% of Notion with One Feature Most Notion setups turn into a jumbled mess because databases live in isolation—tasks, notes, and projects all compete for your attention. Jeff Su’s video shows how the Relations feature can link your databases, surface only the info you need, and let you build self-filtering templates that automatically organize new projects. It’s the foundation of a powerful command center and takes just a couple of minutes to learn. He walks you through beginner mistakes, the “correct” way to structure Notion, manual vs. automated approaches, and even provides a shareable template to follow along. Plus, you’ll find timestamps, resource links, and bonus tools to level up your productivity game. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I recently shipped a small expression language called littlewing, written in TypeScript, now in production at my company. It parses and evaluates formulas like: basePrice * (1 - discount) + seasonalBonus Marketing stores these formulas in the database, and they get evaluated at runtime. Nothing unusual so far – lots of companies do the same. But marketing now wants something bigger: “We want a visual formula builder where we can create and update our pricing logic ourselves… without developers.” Cue dramatic music. We were already using expr-eval. Great little library, but two big blockers: It has no concept of dates, but marketing needed formulas like: paymentDate < NOW() + FROM_DAYS(7) It doesn’t expose the AST, so building a visual editor on top of it would be painful. And since e…  ( 10 min )

To build a successful SaaS MVP, identify one painful customer problem, ship only the must have feature that solves it, and validate fast with real users. Use lean experiments, no code tools, and structured feedback to decide what to build next, or whether to pivot. A SaaS MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is the simplest working version of your software that solves one core problem for a specific audience and lets you collect real user feedback. It is not a half baked product. It is a learning tool designed to answer: “Are we building something people will actually use and pay for?” Prototype Often non-functional or partially functional Used to visualize or test UX and flows Great for internal reviews and early user interviews SaaS MVP Fully functional around one core use case …  ( 11 min )

Modern e-commerce platforms increasingly rely on modular, API-driven components. ERPs… do not. They are deterministic, slow-moving systems built around the idea that consistency matters more than speed. Recently, when migrating a custom storefront to Solidus, a complete open source e-commerce solution built with Ruby on Rails for one of our clients, we faced this architectural tension head-on: How do you build a fast, flexible, customer-facing storefront when the ERP must remain the single source of truth for products, stock, and order states? The problem that has arisen here was ensuring the data consistency between the [Solidus](https://solidus.io/) storefront and ERP system. It was obvious that event-driven two-way communication between them needed to be established, but the question wa…  ( 11 min )

Vibe coding—collaborative coding with AI—is transforming the way developers work. But what might the next five years bring? Let’s explore three possible futures: the best-case scenario, the worst-case scenario, and a realistic middle-ground. All with a healthy dose of humor, because coding without laughter is basically debugging in slow motion. Imagine an office—or a home setup—where AI tools are not just assistants, but truly intuitive partners. Automation nirvana: Repetitive tasks like writing boilerplate, formatting code, or running tests are entirely automated. AI even writes unit tests before you ask for them. Bug pre-emption: AI anticipates problems before they appear—like a psychic debugging sidekick. It flags potential null pointers, tricky race conditions, or spaghetti loops wit…  ( 8 min )

Table of content Introduction The Practical Example Analysis Integers String Values The big picture Introduction In our previous articles, we learned: how to make basic value objects how to use them in an advanced way how to make entities It's time to mix all these concepts together and apply them in a practical example. This will allow us to create a custom-type system tailored to our application, extending and improving the native one. The Practical Example Let's consider a simple yet meaningful example: a library management system. We need to design the data structures to effectively represent that domain. There's no single way to do so; it depends on the specific problem we need to solve. Analysis Before writing any code, we should understand what we need to build. There is …  ( 12 min )

It started the way most digital disasters do—quietly, almost innocently. At 6:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, developers around the world began noticing something strange. Websites weren't loading. APIs were timing out. Error messages appeared where content should be. And then, all at once, the internet broke. Picture this: You're reaching for your morning coffee, opening your laptop to check the news on X (formerly Twitter), planning to queue up some Spotify for your commute, maybe tackle that design project in Canva. Instead, you're greeted with a cold, impersonal message: Internal server error on Cloudflare's network Error 500 You refresh. Nothing. You try ChatGPT—surely AI should be working, right? Nope. Same error. Claude AI? Down. Spotify? Unreachable. Even League …  ( 14 min )

We just released Kren-M™, a production-ready bilingual foundation model for Khasi and English. No outside funding rounds. No imported talent. No compromise on local understanding. We did it internally at MWire Labs (the AI research division of MWire, a Shillong-based firm that has delivered IT systems and solutions serving 8+ million citizens since 2017). Because when it comes to Northeast languages, the deepest expertise isn’t in Bangalore or California — it’s right here in the hills. Big labs throw hundreds at Indic models. We threw eight years of on-the-ground experience. We know Khasi isn’t just tokens, it’s morphology, dialect variation, cultural nuance that only someone who grew up hearing it can capture. That’s why our tokenizer cuts Khasi token count by 36 %. That’s why the model never auto-translates unless asked. That’s why it sounds like home. Kren-M™ (Gemma-2-2B base, 2.6B params): Custom tokenizer with 2,135 Khasi/Garo tokens 5.43 M hand-cleaned Khasi sentences (proprietary — our moat) Fully task-aware SFT — natural bilingual behaviour Runs offline on 6 GB VRAM Live: https://huggingface.co/MWirelabs/Kren-M White paper: https://mwirelabs.com/models/kren-m Preprint (DOI): https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8144118/v1 We also open-sourced the one of the largest public Assamese & Mizo corpora + the first Garo corpus ever. Early 2026: Expect Kren-NE, Gemma-2-9B multilingual covering Khasi, Garo, Mizo, Assamese, Meitei, Nagamese, Kokborok and more. All built the same way: local team, local data, local control. The future of Northeast AI won’t be built in glass towers far away. It will be built here, by us, for us. NEindicLLM #KhasiLLM #MeghalayaAI #NortheastAI  ( 7 min )

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The Problem: When Backups Take Forever I was backing up my entire Documents folder to an external SSD. Simple task, right? Wrong. 2 hours later, I was still watching the progress bar crawl. Not because of large video files or databases — but because of node_modules. Those tiny JavaScript files, tens of thousands of them per project, were destroying my backup speed. The issue wasn't even the disk space (though yeah, 10GB is 10GB). It was the sheer number of files. Each node_modules folder has thousands of tiny dependencies, and copying thousands of small files is painfully slow compared to a few large ones. I had dozens of old projects in my Documents folder. Projects I hadn't touched in months. Each one still carrying around its own bloated node_modules like dead weight. The Breaking Point…  ( 7 min )

Every infrastructure team eventually hits the same wall: you need more IPv4 addresses, and you need them yesterday. I've seen teams burn weeks debating whether to buy or lease. The problem? They're asking the wrong question. It's not about which option is "better"—it's about which option fits your specific situation. Here's a practical framework I use to cut through the noise. Forget the marketing fluff. Your decision comes down to three numbers: Time horizon (in months) Capital availability (cash on hand vs. monthly budget) Flexibility requirements (scale up/down probability) Let me show you how to use these. Break-even (months) = Purchase Price per IP / Monthly Lease Rate With current 2026 market rates: Purchase: ~$28-30 per IP Lease: ~$0.38-0.45 per IP/month Plugging in median values: …  ( 7 min )

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are fundamental practices in DevOps that revolutionize the software development lifecycle. By automating key processes, CI/CD enables teams to implement rapid code changes and consistently deliver high-quality applications to users. CI/CD represents a set of practices that streamline the integration and delivery of software: Continuous Integration (CI): This focuses on automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors. When developers commit code, CI tools automatically build and test the changes, helping identify issues early. Continuous Delivery (CD): This extends the CI process, automating the deployment of applications to various environments. With CD, new features and updates can be released to users swiftl…  ( 8 min )

Where Have All The Metalheads Gone? takes you on a headbanging trip through metal’s past, checks in on what the scene looks like today, and even speculates about where it might be headed next. Huge thanks to the Beato Club squad—over 50 dedicated supporters (from Justin Scott and Terence Mark to Piush Dahal and Toby Guidry) who keep the riff train rolling. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The U.S. dairy industry is standing at a rare crossroads. Domestic demand remains strong, innovation is accelerating, and global markets are expanding faster than ever before - especially in regions where rising incomes, urbanization, and evolving food habits are driving an unprecedented appetite for high-quality dairy products. For small and mid-sized dairy companies across the United States, this moment represents more than just an opportunity — it’s an open gateway to global expansion, increased profitability, and long-term brand resilience. Yet tapping into the international dairy trade requires more than production strength. It demands strategic foresight, compliance mastery, and a workforce capable of executing global ambitions with precision. This article explores the landscape of d…  ( 9 min )

Are you building a video conferencing, live streaming, or telehealth app? Then the WebRTC MediaStream API is your foundation. Learn how to grab camera/mic, manipulate tracks, and connect to peers — all with production-ready tips and code. 🔍 In our guide you’ll explore: What a MediaStream is and how it works in a WebRTC flow. Key interfaces like MediaStreamTrack, and methods such as getUserMedia(), addTrack(), removeTrack(). How to integrate advanced processing (Canvas, Web Audio) for custom effects. Constraints and quality tuning (video resolution, frame rate, echo cancellation). Connecting the stream into RTCPeerConnection: publishing and receiving tracks. Production best-practices: cleaning up streams, error handling, debugging via Chrome DevTools. Browser compatibility, secure contexts (HTTPS), polyfills. How Ant Media Server extends and accelerates this: ultra-low latency (200-500 ms), large-scale streaming, protocol conversion (WebRTC ↔ RTMP ↔ HLS). If you’re ready to build robust, scalable real-time video experiences — this guide is your next stop. Don’t just stream — stream smart. 👉 Read the full guide on Ant Media’s blog  ( 6 min )

Master 80% of Notion with Relations Most Notion setups get messy when your tasks, notes, and projects live in isolated databases. This video dives into the Relations feature—just a 2-minute learn—that lets you link databases so each view only shows what’s relevant, forming the backbone of powerful Notion systems. In a hands-on walkthrough (with handy timestamps), you’ll see how to connect databases, build self-filtering templates, and automate new project setup. Plus, grab a free dupable template, explore the full Command Center course, and level up your workspace with extra resources. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Streamlining PrestaShop: How AI Uncovers the Power of MCP Tools For any PrestaShop e-commerce manager, the grind of repetitive duties like generating sales reports or meticulous inventory audits can quickly consume valuable time and hinder growth. Enter the PS MCP Server and the MCP Tools Plus module: a duo designed to integrate an AI assistant directly into your online store. These innovative solutions aren't about a grand technological overhaul; they focus on practical problem-solving – saving countless hours on data analysis, automating routine reports, and empowering swift, data-backed decision-making. This article explores the synergy between these tools, without delving into deep technicalities. We will examine common operational hurdles, highlight the core capabilities of MCP Tool…  ( 12 min )

Both OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 and Google’s Gemini 3 Pro represent incremental but meaningful steps in the ongoing arms race for general-purpose, multimodal AI. GPT-5.1 is a refinement of the GPT-5 line — focusing on adaptive reasoning, lower latency for simple tasks, and stylistic/personality controls for more natural conversational tone. Google’s Gemini 3 Pro pushes the frontier on multimodality, deep reasoning modes, and tight tooling for agentic workflows. GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) and Gemini 3 Pro Preview (Google/DeepMind) target overlapping but distinct tradeoffs: GPT-5.1 focuses on faster adaptive reasoning, developer workflows and coding reliability with new agent/coding tools and token/cost optimizations; Gemini 3 Pro doubles down on extreme multimodal scale (video/audio/images + very large context…  ( 14 min )

Summary Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive into John Hughes’s 1985 cult classic Weird Science on The Ringer’s Rewatchables, unpacking its mix of teen fantasy, sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll and standout turns from Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. Produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo and sponsored by State Farm, this episode is a fun, nostalgia-packed romp. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Ringer-Verse and Bill Simmons YouTube channels and follow Ringer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more deep dives! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins just dropped “Everything Wrong With The Wiz In 15 Minutes Or Less,” using Wicked’s big-screen comeback as an excuse to blaze down the yellow brick road and roast every musical misstep and wardrobe whoopsie of the ’78 classic. Spoiler alert: it’s surprisingly more entertaining than you remember. Want more sin? Hit up their Linktree for the latest videos, toss them a coin on Patreon, and junk-mail Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel on Twitter. You can also join the chatter on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Sector HQ Weekly Digest - November 19, 2025 Who's shipping vs who's just talking? Here's this week's AI industry intelligence. OpenAI - Score: 530124.7 | 343 events this week Anthropic - Score: 253535.7 | 51 events this week Google - Score: 158934.0 | 125 events this week Amazon - Score: 135271.9 | 22 events this week Microsoft - Score: 134009.8 | 99 events this week Nvidia - Score: 124577.5 | 161 events this week Meta - Score: 94628.0 | 61 events this week Apple - Score: 76821.9 | 94 events this week Perplexity - Score: 47342.6 | 3 events this week DeepMind - Score: 41453.5 | 8 events this week ↑ Sony jumped 277 positions to #68 ↑ Stability AI jumped 183 positions to #76 ↑ Bytedance jumped 143 positions to #52 ↑ Scale AI jumped 122 positions to #43 ↑ Palantir jumped 107 positions to #17 No high hype alerts this week Total companies tracked: 100 Total events this week: 1317 Average activity per company: 13.2 events The AI industry continues to evolve rapidly. Companies that ship consistently rise in our rankings, while those focused on hype alone get flagged by our Hype Gap detector. Methodology: Our leaderboard tracks real product releases, funding events, partnerships, and market traction - not just PR and social media buzz. Want real-time updates? Check out the live leaderboard at sectorhq.co Track specific companies and get instant alerts when they move in the rankings. Tags AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechIndustry #Startups #AILeaderboard  ( 6 min )

Overview Hello everyone 👋 Today I'm excited to share something I've been working on that's pretty close to my heart: Domenico Tenace Open Labs, my new GitHub organization dedicated to open source projects. If you're wondering why I decided to create this, well, it's simple: I wanted a centralized space where all my open source work could live, breathe, and grow with the help of the community. No more scattered repos, no more confusion about where to find what. Just a clean, organized digital lab where developers can explore, use, contribute, and learn together. Let's start! 🤙 You might be asking yourself: "Why not just keep everything in your personal GitHub account?" Fair question! Here's the thing: as my projects started to grow, I realized they needed a proper home. An organization …  ( 9 min )

In the first part, I referenced DeAI and how Oasis suggests a combination of RONL (runtime on-chain logic, Sapphire confidential EVM) and ROFL (runtime off-chain logic, framework) components, with SGX and TDX TEEs, pave the groundwork for trustworthy AI models. Here, I will show fine-tuning of an LLM in Oasis TEE and publishing provenance information on-chain. Fine-tuning an LLM in a TEE In this experiment, we will try to integrate a GPU-enabled TEE with Oasis. We will use fine-tuning for a sample machine learning (ML) task where we will teach a new fact to an existing foundation model. This ML task is set up using a server with AMD SEV-SNP and an NVIDIA H100 to run a confidential VM in accordance with NVIDIA’s deployment guide. The confidential VM shares an initialization script with th…  ( 8 min )

🔍 difit: Preview GitHub-like diffs locally before you push Yuji Ueki ・ Jul 18 #git #cli #productivity #devtools  ( 6 min )

Most voice AI systems today are built as a fixed chain: STT → LLM → TTS → Audio Output. This works for demos, but falls apart the moment you need: Custom business logic CRM integrations Multi-agent routing Knowledge lookups Scheduling flows Post-call actions Pipeline branching Swappable providers (Claude vs GPT, Deepgram vs Whisper, etc.) So for EchoStack, I scrapped the idea of a “voice bot pipeline” entirely and built a voice automation platform powered by an event-driven orchestration layer. Here’s how the architecture works — and why it has completely changed what’s possible with real-time AI. Not STT. Just pure audio transport: User Mic → LiveKit → EchoStack EchoStack → LiveKit → User Speaker Inside EchoStack, every audio frame becomes an event: processing.livekit.audio_frame This…  ( 8 min )

After a decade of building systems in .NET from small internal tools to large-scale enterprise platforms. I’ve learned that great software isn’t just about code. It’s about craftsmanship. Here are 10 lessons that stuck with me 👇 1️⃣ Clean code always wins long-term. Quick fixes impress today, but clarity impresses for years. 2️⃣ Patterns are tools, not rules. Don’t force CQRS, DDD, or Clean Architecture unless they solve your actual problem. 3️⃣ Tests are your safety net. Nothing feels better than refactoring confidently because your tests have your back. 4️⃣ Readability > Cleverness. Future-you (and your teammates) will thank you. 5️⃣ Don’t optimize prematurely. Measure first, then act. Performance tuning starts with data, not assumptions. 6️⃣ Understand business logic deeply. The best developers write code that solves the right problem, not just the technical one. 7️⃣ Refactoring is a continuous process. Not a one-time event after the sprint ends. 8️⃣ Learn beyond .NET. Architecture, DevOps, design, and communication matter as much as C#. 9️⃣ Mentorship amplifies your impact. Teaching others sharpens your own skills — and lifts the team. 🔟 Humility keeps you growing. The moment you think you’ve mastered it all, you stop learning. After 7 years, I’ve realized: “Being a Senior developer isn’t about knowing everything — it’s about knowing what truly matters.” 💬 What’s one lesson you learned in your software journey?  ( 7 min )

Hi, I am a technology consultant at a leading software, web, mobile and eCommerce development company based in India and the USA. Last week, one of our clients requested a 3D product viewer for their eCommerce store, and our developers wanted to explore more about how to build fast 3D product viewers using React and Three.js. So we created detailed content to help both developers and merchants understand how 3D viewers work and how they can boost conversions in modern eCommerce stores. Let’s begin! 3D product experiences are no longer “future emerging tech”; they are now driving real conversions for online eCommerce stores. With Three.js, React, and lightweight 3D model formats like GLTF/GLB, developers can build immersive product viewers that help customers understand products better, red…  ( 8 min )

Introduction Welcome back, makers! 👋 In this project, you’ll learn how to lock and unlock a solenoid lock using: 1. Arduino Mega 2. A relay module 3. 12V power supply 4. Simple push button Breadboard Jumper wires(male to male and male to female) By the end, you’ll push a button → the solenoid will pull → the lock will OPEN. Push the button again → the solenoid releases → the lock goes back to LOCKED. Let’s dive in! Component Image Description Arduino Mega Microcontroller to read button and control relay 12V Solenoid Lock The physical locking mechanism Relay Module (5V Control) Acts as a switch to send 12V to the solenoid 12V Power Adapter Powers the solenoid and Arduino Push Button Triggers lock/unlock Breadboard & Jumper Wires For easy wiring Here’s the wiring…  ( 8 min )

The New Analytics Stack: Data → Views → Tools → Agents The modern analytics stack has quietly gone through a massive shift. It's no longer about dashboards—in fact, it's barely about interfaces anymore. We're moving into a world where "chatting with your data" becomes the primary way teams get answers. Dashboards were built for a different era: Static views: Dashboards show what someone decided was important when they built it. They don't adapt to new questions or changing priorities. Predefined slices: You can only see data the way the dashboard designer structured it. Want to see it differently? Build a new dashboard. Horizontal summaries: Dashboards show high-level metrics across many dimensions, but they can't go deep. They show you that revenue is up 20%, but not why. Useful, sure—b…  ( 16 min )

Hi Everyone , I am new to learning Spring Framework and have started to write about the topics I am learning , sharing them here about the same. Spring Bean If you're diving into the Spring Framework, you've probably encountered terms like Spring Bean, Spring Container, and ApplicationContext. These concepts are the foundation of what makes Spring so powerful and flexible. Think of them as the essential building blocks for your modern Java application. 🧱 What is a Spring Bean? POJO with a twist: A bean is essentially a Plain Old Java Object (POJO) that Spring manages. Managed Lifecycle: Spring controls the entire lifecycle of a bean, from its creation and initialization to the injection of its dependencies and eventual destruction. Definition: You tell Spring which classes should become b…  ( 7 min )

Practical survival strategies for the modern office ecosystem. There’s a magical moment in every office: exactly 4:58 PM. Leave too early, and people notice. Here’s how to master the balance: 3:45 PM — Slowly close a browser tab. Preferably the one with a recipe for lasagna. 4:30 PM — Take a deep, purposeful sigh, as if you’re solving the world’s problems. 4:58 PM — Open an Excel sheet. Stare at it like it’s the night sky. 5:00:01 PM — Stand up gracefully, as if someone gently unplugged you. 5:01 PM — Walk out calmly, like someone who always finishes on time. Even if that’s a small fib. Do it right, and no one will notice the last 40 minutes you were mentally already on the couch. There’s an unspoken theory: if a team member sits quietly and never complains, they must be availab…  ( 7 min )

The age-old debate – What’s better for development: JavaScript or TypeScript? Okay, maybe it isn’t an age-old conundrum, but it does make several developers scratch their heads before beginning a web development undertaking. Before we dive into these languages (or offshoots of the same language) and discuss their differences as well as which one we believe you should use in your next project, let’s have a look at exploring what they are if you are new to them. JavaScript is an interpreted programming language that allows us to build amazing features on web pages – at least that’s how it would have been defined a couple of years ago – but JavaScript no longer refers to the programming language that simply aids HTML and CSS in building fabulous websites by controlling the behavior of fea…  ( 17 min )

Structured Endpoints: The Missing Layer Between Data and AI Agents APIs are too rigid, databases are too risky. We believe structured endpoints—governed views that agents can query safely—are the missing piece that makes AI agents actually work in production. Every time I talk to teams building AI agents, they hit the same wall: how do you give agents access to data? Option 1: Direct database access. Fast, flexible, powerful. Also: security nightmare, governance impossible, performance unpredictable. Agents can query anything, see everything, and bring down your database with a single bad query. Option 2: APIs. Secure, controlled, documented. Also: rigid, limited, slow. APIs expose predefined endpoints with fixed schemas. Agents can only do what the API designer thought of. New questions…  ( 17 min )

If you are building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), you are likely familiar with the "Token Tax." Every character you send to an API like OpenAI or Anthropic costs money and eats into your context window. We’ve spent decades treating JSON as the gold standard for data serialization, and for good reason—it's readable and ubiquitous. But JSON is chatty. It loves whitespace, it demands quotes around every key, and it uses heavy punctuation ({, }, [, ]) that adds up quickly when you are sending thousands of records in a prompt. Enter CTON (Compact Token-Oriented Notation). CTON is an aggressively minified, shape-preserving data format designed specifically for LLM interactions. It strips away the syntactic sugar humans like (indentation, excessive quoting) but keeps the structu…  ( 8 min )

The Best AI Articles Dev.to Won’t Show You Isaac Hagoel ・ Nov 18  ( 6 min )

Timothy stared at his screen in disbelief. "Margaret, I don't understand what's happening. I have a simple inheritance hierarchy - a LoggingMixin and a ValidationMixin that both inherit from BaseMixin, and my User class inherits from both. But when I call super().__init__(), methods are being called in a completely bizarre order. Sometimes the same method gets called twice, sometimes it skips methods entirely. What is going on?" He showed her his code: class BaseMixin: def __init__(self): print("BaseMixin.__init__") super().__init__() class LoggingMixin(BaseMixin): def __init__(self): print("LoggingMixin.__init__") super().__init__() class ValidationMixin(BaseMixin): def __init__(self): print("ValidationMixin.__init__") super().…  ( 27 min )

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, neural networks are reshaping nearly every industry they touch—and education is no exception. Imagine having an intelligent, always-available assistant that guides you through your learning journey with ease. This vision is becoming reality thanks to large language models (LLMs), widely adopted in education under the term LLM4EDU. These advanced systems are transforming how we teach, learn, and understand student progress in ways that once seemed impossible. How LLM4EDU Is Reshaping Learning Neural network–driven tools are already making a significant impact across many educational activities: Virtual Experiments: Students can perform science experiments in safe, simulation-based environments with no logistical constraints. Exam Preparation: P…  ( 8 min )

Great apps don’t break because of traffic — they break because they were never engineered for it. There’s a moment every developer hits: Most apps run fine at 100 users. Scaling isn’t luck. Early success tricks you. Your API feels fast because only five people are testing it. The real question isn’t: That’s where real engineering begins. Scalable systems don’t emerge by accident. 1. Go Stateless Wherever Possible Stateless services scale horizontally with ease. 2. Cache Like Your Life Depends on It Good caching reduces 60–80% of load. Memory cache Local DB cache Network cache Server cache Offline-first is more than convenience — it’s resilience. 3. Optimize First-Contact Experiences The critical path determines whether users stay or bounce. App launch Login …  ( 7 min )

If you are building with Large Language Models (LLMs), you are essentially a logistics manager. Your job is to ship information from your database to an AI’s brain and back again, as efficiently as possible. For years, we’ve defaulted to JSON because it is the lingua franca of the web. But have you ever looked at a 50-item JSON list inside a prompt window? It’s a sea of repetitive keys, curly braces, and wasted tokens. In the world of GenAI, context is currency. Every token you waste on syntax is a token you can't use for reasoning, history, or creativity. Enter TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). It’s not just "another standard". It is a purpose-built syntax designed to fix the specific headaches of communicating with AI. Today, let's pop the hood, look at some complex examples, and se…  ( 9 min )

When I first started managing cloud projects, every workspace felt disconnected. But I learned quickly: without shared context, automation stalls, standards drift, and AI has nothing to reason from. The fundamentals don’t change. But here’s the reality. The challenge is fragmentation. The opportunity is convergence. A context-first cloud model isn’t just collaboration. Ps: lmk if you would like to check the GitHub repo that we created Check the video here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRId14gyYnk  ( 6 min )

Note: This is part of our series demystifying synchronisation. See our other instalments: How to Sync Anything: Introduction, How to Sync Anything: Building a Sync Engine from Scratch — Part 1 and How to Sync Anything: Building a Sync Engine from Scratch — Part 3 In this part, we will learn how to efficiently find out what data needs to be synchronised. Say we have a news app that runs on mobile devices and a server that publishes new stories. Blogs and RSS are good real-world examples. The scenario is this: our app starts for the first time and there are no stories available for the user to read on the device. So, the app asks the server to send the latest set of stories to the device. End result: our users get to read some stories. Later, when our apps starts for the second time, your ap…  ( 11 min )

The mobile app market is unforgiving. One critical bug on a Samsung device, a crash on Android 11, or a layout issue on a specific screen size can tank your app store ratings overnight. Yet, building and maintaining a comprehensive physical device testing lab has become increasingly impractical for most development teams. Consider the reality: Android runs on thousands of device models, across multiple OS versions, with varying screen sizes, processors, and memory configurations. A proper physical device lab to cover even basic testing scenarios could easily require 20-30 devices, costing thousands of dollars upfront, plus ongoing maintenance, updates, and replacement costs. This is why most development teams today are moving toward cloud-based Android testing infrastructure. But the lands…  ( 15 min )

The Coderive project is excited to announce the release of version 0.1.0, packed with updates that make the language more powerful and a joy to use. This release reflects valuable early feedback and our commitment to building a language that works for developers. The developer listened to your needs for a richer ecosystem, which is why he is introducing the Sys library and the builtin keyword, setting the stage for a growing standard library. To help teams write cleaner, more consistent code, Coderive now automatically enforces naming conventions, turning best practices into a built-in feature. The developer also invested heavily in the core engine. With refactored error handling and a more organized codebase, Coderive is not just more capable—it's also built to last. Your input is directly shaping Coderive's future. Dive into v0.1.0 and experience the difference. See the repo here.  ( 6 min )

How to Start a Speech like a PRO: 5.5 Tips to Grab Your Audience's Attention As a speaker, you have one job in the first 30 seconds of any speech, pitch, presentation, or meeting: make your audience sit up and listen. The truth is, they won't listen unless you make them, and it's not their job to give you their attention - it's yours to grab it. Unfortunately, the beginnings of most pitches, presentations, and speeches are as dull as dishwater, which is why audiences often find themselves checking their phones, reading emails, or chatting with the person next to them. The good news is that you don't have to do a lot to stand out and start your speech like a pro. In this article, we'll explore the major pitfalls to avoid and provide you with 5.5 top tips for killer intros that will have you…  ( 8 min )

If you've been working with AI or machine learning recently, you've probably heard about vector databases like Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, and pgvector. Now, AWS has added its own option: Amazon S3 Vectors. So, is it just another AWS service, or something different? The honest answer: it's different. Neither strictly better nor worse, but unique in its own way. Let's explore what it is, when to use it, and when other solutions might be better. Traditional Amazon S3 is like a giant digital filing cabinet - it's cheap, reliable, and able to hold a vast amount of data. But it's built for storage, not for fast searching. Imagine you're building an AI-powered customer support system. You have millions of old tickets and want to find similar ones fast. Storage fees for embeddings, Query costs, Inf…  ( 8 min )

Remember when you were a kid and thought spies were the coolest thing ever? Yeah, me too. Fast forward to present day, and here I am, living my best spy-movie-developer life by building polyglot files into my steganography app. A polyglot file is basically the Inception of file formats. It's a file that works as two completely different formats at the same time. Like, imagine having a JPG image that you can open normally in any image viewer, BUT if you rename it to .zip and extract it, BAM! There's a secret PDF hidden inside. Leo DiCaprio would be proud. That's what I thought too! But then I learned about a beautiful quirk in how ZIP files work: ZIP files are read from the END, not the beginning. Let that sink in for a second. This means you can literally prepend ANY data to the front of…  ( 10 min )

Introduction In today’s fast-moving tech job market, understanding what skills are in demand is crucial. I recently worked on a project that automatically analyzes LinkedIn job postings, extracts the technical skills mentioned in each job description, and groups similar roles together. The goal is to help recruiters, job seekers, and data enthusiasts make sense of large volumes of unstructured job posting data. You can check out the project here: GitHub Repository The workflow has four main steps: Data Preparation The project starts by collecting job postings from LinkedIn and creating a manageable sample for analysis. It prepares the text by removing unnecessary clutter like links, punctuation, and irrelevant words. Skill Extraction Each job description is scanned for a list of te…  ( 7 min )

I’ve been playing with the WordPress 6.9 betas lately, mostly out of curiosity (and a bit of avoidance of actual work), and somehow the feature that stood out the most wasn’t any of the “big” ones. It was Notes. Yeah, Notes. Sounds tiny. Sounds boring. Sounds like something you scribble on a sticky note and lose under your keyboard. But inside the block editor, Notes actually feel like the missing mini-tool we’ve all been faking with comments, Slack screenshots, random emojis, “TODO” blocks, and whatever else we come up with when we need to leave instructions for clients or teammates. Instead of writing stuff like: “hey, reminder to change this later” “please don’t delete this, it breaks something, idk why” …you just drop a note right on the block, and anyone who edits the page later automatically sees it. No digging around. No mystery warnings. No shared doc nobody reads. The fun part is: Notes help both sides — site owners and devs. Clients can leave reminders for writers. Writers can nudge designers. Developers can leave quick “don’t touch this” messages without writing a massive Slack essay at midnight. If you’ve ever managed a WP site with multiple cooks in the kitchen, this is actually a pretty big quality-of-life upgrade. I wrote a small breakdown of the feature, including how to enable Notes for custom post types (easy, surprisingly). If you work with WordPress regularly, it’s worth a look. 👉 *A simple look at the new * Notes feature in WordPress 6.9 If you’ve tried Notes already, curious whether you think it’ll be actually useful long-term or become one of those features everyone forgets after week one.  ( 7 min )

Choosing the right workflow orchestration tool in 2025 feels like navigating a minefield. You've got Temporal with its $349.5M war chest promising bulletproof reliability, serverless upstarts like Inngest reimagining the entire paradigm, and database-native rebels like DBOS claiming 25x performance improvements. Meanwhile, your production system needs a decision yesterday. That is why I did some AI research for you and summarize best choices for you with pros-cons of each. (ofc this is written by AI but hallucination-safe context to help you to choose better!) I spent the last three weeks diving deep into this chaos. Using Gemini Deep Research and Perplexity's comprehensive search capabilities, I analyzed 40+ code-integrated workflow orchestration platforms—reading technical documentation,…  ( 37 min )

KubeEdge: Extending Kubernetes to the Edge for Robust and Scalable Edge Computing Introduction Edge computing is revolutionizing industries by bringing computation and data storage closer to the source of data, enabling faster processing, reduced latency, and optimized bandwidth usage. While cloud computing remains crucial for centralized services, the need to process data in real-time at the edge has become increasingly important for applications like IoT, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. However, managing a fleet of edge devices with varying capabilities and connectivity can be a significant challenge. This is where KubeEdge comes into play. KubeEdge is an open-source system that extends native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at the edge. …  ( 9 min )

Just as life has different phases involved, i.e we are born, grow and later die, React components experience phases as well. The phases which react components undergo are mounting, updating and unmounting. Components interact with components to provide an interface for user interaction in web applications. However, a component – the building block of every UI we interact with – has a life cycle. Lets go through the phases briefly. This is the first phase in a react component. We can as well say it is the birth phase of a react component. In this phase, a component instance is created and inserted into the DOM.(Document Object Model). We have 4 methods in this phase listed below and in their order. constructor() static getDerivedStateFromProps() render() componentDidMount()  ( 6 min )

I’m building a production chatbot that uses an LLM + vector store + REST API calls. The issue is: whenever the API returns incomplete data or the vector search returns low similarity, the bot starts hallucinating answers. What’s the best practice to strictly force the bot to say “No data available” instead of generating something? Is this a prompt issue, retrieval design issue, or something related to scoring/similarity thresholds?I’m building a production chatbot that uses an LLM + vector store + REST API calls. The issue is: whenever the API returns incomplete data or the vector search returns low similarity, the bot starts hallucinating answers. What’s the best practice to strictly force the bot to say “No data available” instead of generating something? Is this a prompt issue, retrieval design issue, or something related to scoring/similarity thresholds?  ( 6 min )

Prometheus Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed at SoundCloud in 2012 and now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project. It's specifically designed for reliability and scalability in dynamic cloud environments, making it the go-to solution for monitoring microservices, containers, and Kubernetes clusters. Time-Series Database: Prometheus stores all data as time-series, identified by metric names and key-value pairs (labels), enabling flexible and powerful querying capabilities. Pull-Based Model: Unlike traditional push-based systems, Prometheus actively scrapes metrics from configured targets at specified intervals, making it more reliable and easier to configure. PromQL Query Language: A powerful functional query language all…  ( 12 min )

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Modern RAG systems need to handle massive documents, understand complex entity relationships and much more. Traditional RAG systems follow a simple pattern: chunk documents, embed them into vectors, retrieve similar chunks via cosine similarity, and feed them to an LLM. While effective for many use cases, this approach struggles with three critical scenarios: Long-range dependencies: Important context might span thousands of tokens across multiple chunks Retrieval confidence: The system has no way to assess whether retrieved content is actually relevant Relationship complexity: Vector similarity cannot capture intricate connections between entities Advanced RAG variants address these limitations with specialized architectures tailored to specific chall…  ( 15 min )

Hello everyone! Like many of you here, I often face creative blocks and the "blank page" problem. That feeling when you have a vague image in your head but can't assemble it into a strong, well-thought-out story is probably familiar to everyone. After trying countless methods, I ended up creating a tool for myself that doesn't write for me, but helps me understand my own ideas. It works like a structured brainstorming session with myself. I called it "Narrative Alchemist". What's the core idea? This is not an AI text generator. It's a foundation generator for your story. The tool helps you: Overcome the emptiness of the blank page by offering hundreds of non-obvious ideas through genre hybrids and paradoxes. Think deeper about conflict — not just "hero vs villain," but a clash of differen…  ( 7 min )

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency and automation are paramount. Developers often encounter scenarios where they need to generate structured documents, such as reports, invoices, contracts, or personalized letters, from dynamic data. Manually creating these documents is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error. This is where programmatic document generation becomes an invaluable skill. Imagine a system that can automatically pull data from a database, format it, and output a polished Word document with a click of a button. For C# developers, automating Word document creation opens up a realm of possibilities, from streamlining business processes to enhancing data visualization. This guide will walk you through a practical approach to programmatically c…  ( 10 min )

Cloud outages feel a lot like sudden rain — you never know when it hits, and when it does, everyone runs for cover. In June 2024, Cloudflare, the backbone behind nearly 20% of global web traffic, went down. And just like that, platforms we rely on every day — ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Canva — all threw the dreaded: “500 Internal Server Error” It was the kind of digital storm that reminds us: even the strongest cloud isn’t unbreakable. When a network this big fails, the internet doesn’t bend — it buckles. Millions of API calls fail Streaming apps freeze SaaS dashboards stop loading Support centers get flooded Teams scramble to diagnose what they don’t control It’s a surreal moment where the entire world remembers: The cloud is powerful — but not invincible. While the internet was panic…  ( 7 min )

The semiconductor industry is under growing pressure to deliver higher performance, lower power consumption, and reduced cost per transistor. However, as process technologies continue to shrink, the traditional monolithic SoC model is reaching both physical and economic limits. Larger dies are more expensive to produce and have lower yield, while not all functions scale efficiently at smaller geometries. The industry’s answer is chiplet-based design. Chiplets enable splitting complex systems into smaller, specialized dies that are easier to manufacture, optimize, and verify. They offer a practical path forward for innovation, cost control, and sustainable scaling. 1. Chiplets and the Semiconductor Industry Problems They Solve Figure 1: Comparison of monolithic SoC and chiplet-based archit…  ( 9 min )

Someone on Zhihu asked a question: How to achieve smooth upgrades for Java microservice API version compatibility? In microservice architecture, frequent service iterations lead to increasing differences in API versions, while the upgrade pace of clients (such as Apps, Web frontends) often lags behind. This frequently causes compatibility issues and can even lead to online failures. Common version control strategies, such as adding version numbers in the URL path (/v1/user) or using request headers to distinguish versions, although they can clearly differentiate between different versions, also bring the heavy cost of maintaining multiple versioned interfaces and increase the adaptation difficulty for clients. This article will analyze the root cause of this problem and introduce how the N…  ( 10 min )

Blockchain development is a high-stakes game where code quality really matters. A single undetected bug can lead to major and sometimes irreversible financial losses. Should we really gamble on skipping a static analyzer check? Let's put it to the test by diving into the code of the Neo and NBitcoin projects. Since I brought up the unique nature of blockchain development, let's delve into what that specifically entails. First, many blockchain projects handle digital assets with real-world value: tokens, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, access rights, and others. A code error might not just cause a program malfunction but lead directly to users' financial losses. Second, fixing code in a blockchain project after release may be challenging. In decentralized networks, every node must agree to accept …  ( 13 min )

If, in 2025, anyone is facing the same issue with react-pdf causing excessive bundle size or initial page load lag, you can try the following approach. Instead of using React.lazy() (which is for JSX components), I'm using standard dynamic imports for the required functions and components. This ensures they are imported and processed only when the PDF button is clicked, not on every page render. This solves the performance and bundle size issues. const handleGeneratePdf = async () => { if (!ticket || !company) return; try { const { pdf } = await import("@react-pdf/renderer"); const { default: CertiPdf } = await import("../CertPdf"); // Generate PDF blob const blob = await pdf().toBlob(); // Create URL for viewing/printing const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob); setPdfUrl(url); } catch (error) { console.error("Error generating PDF:", error); } };  ( 6 min )

Exposing the undervaluation crisis The bid and proposal profession is in crisis. Not because it lacks expertise, but because it remains widely misunderstood. Too often, proposal professionals are treated as sales admin, sales support or “ambulance chasers” – scrambling to assemble last-minute bids with minimal strategic input. In reality, the bid and proposal function directly influence win rates, revenue growth, and competitive positioning. Yet, despite its impact, it rarely sits at the executive table. Why? Because too many leaders fail to recognize the role of proposal management in driving business success. Compelling leadership to take notice It’s time for executives to rethink where proposal teams fit. Sales teams chase opportunities, but the proposal function turns them into bankabl…  ( 7 min )

The origins of procurement date to around 3,000 BC when Egyptians were scribing orders for the two million limestone and granite blocks needed to build the Great Pyramid. By the 15th century, the first printing presses were publishing the first rudimentary sales catalogues and price lists. The Continental Congress of 1775, commissioning military supplies in New Jersey, was the first recorded use of advertising to solicit proposals. Napoleon introduced the world’s first formal legal procurement framework. Then in 1980 Margaret Thatcher introduced compulsory competitive tendering across UK civil construction. In short, the practice of writing proposals to win contracts is hardly very new. Despite this history, proposal writing is perceived as a vocation still in its relative infancy. Compare…  ( 7 min )

はじめに 開発ツールの月額料金、気づいたら結構な金額になっていませんか？Postman、GitHub、Notion...便利なツールほど、チーム規模が大きくなると課金額も膨らんでいきます。 実は今、そんな商用ツールに匹敵する、いやそれ以上の機能を持つオープンソース代替が続々と登場しています。しかも、単なる「無料版」ではなく、データ管理の自由度やカスタマイズ性で商用製品を上回るケースも少なくありません。 この記事では、開発現場で実際に使える15の有名ツールと、その強力なオープンソース代替を厳選して紹介します。スタートアップで予算を抑えたい方も、エンタープライズでセキュリティ要件が厳しい方も、きっと参考になる情報が見つかるはずです。 Postmanの問題点：API開発の定番ツールですが、近年はリソース消費が増加し起動が遅くなっています。また、チーム機能やワークスペース共有などの重要機能は有料プランが必要で、予算に制約のあるチームには負担になることも。 Hoppscotch ブラウザベースで超軽量なAPI開発ツールです。モダンなUIと高速な応答性が特徴で、REST、GraphQL、WebSocketなど多様なAPIプロトコルをサポート。シンプルな機能だけを求める開発者には最適な選択肢です。オープンソースで、自社サーバーでのセルフホスティングも可能です。 Bruno ローカルファイルベースのAPIクライアントで、すべてのAPIコレクションをJSONファイルとして保存。Gitでのバージョン管理が容易なため、チーム間でのAPI設定共有がスムーズです。コード中心の開発者向けの思想が強く、CLIサポートも充実しています。完全オープンソースで、データプライバシーも確保できます。 Apicat API設計とドキュメント管理に特化した軽量オープンソースツールです。OpenAPI仕様の編…  ( 6 min )

Intro Hey everyone!🤗 If you are a developer who is just starting to work with databases, or perhaps you already know the basics and are looking for a recap or a more in-deph understanding, I hope this article will help you. underlying logic to ensure everything is clear. That's why I have structured this article starting from the NoSQL fundamentals all the way to the internal data storage mechanisms, concentrating on the why behind the database. So, I wish you happy reading!🥰 In this article, we will study: Where we Started: The SQL World The NoSQL story: Not Only SQL From localStorage to Database Basic CRUD Operations: Create, Read, Update, Delete When we work with Relational Database like MySQL or PostgreSQL, our data lines up neatly in those perfectly organized tables. We have to ma…  ( 11 min )

Timothy stared at a function that had grown into a monster of nested if/elif statements. "Margaret, this works, but it's getting hard to read. I'm checking the type, then the value, then special cases... is there a better way?" Margaret looked at his code: def process_command(cmd): if isinstance(cmd, dict): if "action" in cmd and cmd["action"] == "start": if "delay" in cmd and cmd["delay"] > 0: return schedule_start(cmd["delay"]) else: return start_now() elif "action" in cmd and cmd["action"] == "stop": return stop() elif isinstance(cmd, str): if cmd == "help": return show_help() elif cmd == "status": return get_status() return "Unknown command" "This is …  ( 10 min )

Part 1: An Extensible Typescript Code Generation Framework Part 2: Building Full-Stack Apps With Wasp Part 3: Creating a NextJS Plugin In Part 2, we explored how Swarm's Wasp plugin accelerates Wasp application development by generating context-aware boilerplate code. Now, let's dive deeper into Swarm's extensibility by building a plugin for Next.js from scratch. We'll create a route generator that supports Next.js's flexible routing system, including App Router, Pages Router, dynamic routes, and route groups. Next.js offers powerful routing capabilities through its file-based routing system, but creating routes manually can be repetitive. Whether you're using the App Router (app directory) or Pages Router (pages directory), you often find yourself creating similar file structures, co…  ( 14 min )

$http = (isHTTPS() == true ? "https://" : "http://") . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; //获得 https://www.mantools.top  ( 5 min )

Hi everyone, I'd like to share with you my Dev Logs. I've been writing them along side my game that I've been working on full time for almost a year now. I've published what I could for now, and I'll continue writing monthly posts. I'm working on a realistic horror inspired operating system simulation - with a 3D game built inside. This includes all of the expected programs, functionality, and more. I've had a lot of fun working on this project, so I'd like to start sharing it. One feature that I know will excite the modding community - I've included a way for developers to write their own programs in Lua - you can access either the command line API, GUI API, or the OpenGL API. - OpenGL is used for the wallpaper system, the command line and GUI are used for actual programs that can be ran within the game. It's still super early in development, so if this is something you are interested in helping shape, feel free to reach out! Please note, some assets shown are not the final version and will not be included in the release game Please note, some assets shown are not the final version and will not be included in the release game If you would like to follow my development and read my past Dev Logs, you can follow it here - https://stealthisgame.com/dev/  ( 6 min )

PHP发送GET请求，用file_get_contents() PHP发送POST请求，用file_get_contents() /** * 发送post请求 * @param string $url 请求地址 * @param array $post_data post键值对数据 * @return string */ function send_post($url, $post_data) { $postdata = http_build_query($post_data); $options = array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => 'Content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'content' => $postdata, 'timeout' => 15 * 60 // 超时时间（单位:s） ) ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context); return $result; } //使用方法 $post_data = array( 'username' => 'stclair2201', 'password' => 'handan' ); send_post('http://www.mantools.top', $post_data);  ( 6 min )

by Shamal Jayawardhana Why do so many file upload forms feel like they were built for developers… not users? If you’ve ever watched a non-technical teammate struggle to upload a simple PDF or image, you’re not alone. Confusing buttons, unclear instructions, and zero feedback often turn a basic action into a frustrating experience. For startups building MVPs or onboarding early users, a complicated file upload UI can mean the difference between conversion and churn. That’s why it’s critical to design upload interfaces that feel effortless — even for someone who’s never heard the word “backend.” In this guide, we’ll explore how to build a user-friendly file upload UI that’s intuitive, accessible, and startup-ready. Key takeaways Most traditional file upload UIs are built for developers, …  ( 11 min )

Modern web apps aren’t just about buttons and forms anymore — they’re about experiences. The good news? You don’t have to build all of that from scratch. A new wave of animated UI component libraries gives you pre-built, copy-paste components powered by React, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, GSAP, and more. These libraries help you: Ship beautiful landing pages way faster Keep your UI consistent and on-brand Focus on product logic instead of re-inventing animations In this post, we’ll look at 10+ trending animated UI libraries you should absolutely know about in 2025. Stack: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion ([magicui.design][2]) Magic UI is like a set of “premium landing page” building blocks you can just drop into your app. It ships with 20+ animated components (and growing), i…  ( 10 min )

Let's be honest: online product reviews are often... broken. You see a gadget with 4.8 stars, but when you dig in, the reviews are either bots, "incentivized" reviews, or people who used the product for 5 minutes. I got tired of tab-switching between Amazon, Reddit, and YouTube to find the actual truth about a product. So, I built a Chrome Extension to do it for me! It’s called The BS Detector. It lives in the Google Chrome Side Panel, scrapes the product name, and uses Google Gemini 2.0 Flash (with Search Grounding) to cross-reference the product against real discussions on Reddit and independent forums. You could also use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, or Gemini 2.5 Flash. Here is how I built it, the tech stack I used, and the "Aha!" moment regarding JSON schemas. I wanted to keep this lightweig…  ( 9 min )

Unlocking Robot Agility: The Swarm Intelligence Secret Imagine a search and rescue operation. A collapsed building, unstable terrain, and traditional robots struggling to navigate the debris. What if, instead, a swarm of tiny, agile robots could coordinate and self-organize to find survivors? What if they could even reconfigure themselves to overcome obstacles? The key to this level of adaptability lies in embracing the principles of active matter: systems composed of many interacting, energy-consuming units that exhibit complex collective behaviors. Think of a flock of birds or a school of fish. Each individual acts locally, but their combined actions produce remarkable coordinated movements and emergent behaviors. The magic here is in creating a system that allows robots to adapt to ch…  ( 7 min )

Hey devs! Why it’s trending: Key features: Distributed tracing Real-time dashboards Kubernetes, AWS, Azure integrations AI anomaly detection Ideal for: Datadog Why it’s trending: Key features: Distributed tracing Real User Monitoring (RUM) Error tracking and logs Cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP) Ideal for: New Relic Why it’s trending: Key features: Real-time bug detection: ANRs, crashes, memory issues, and more (30+ bug types) Business impact mapping: Each bug is tied to goal conversion or revenue impact Quality Score: Single metric that summarizes overall app health across releases Network call tracking: Track API failures, delays, and duplicate calls for mobile backends Flutter support: Full APM capabilities for Flutter apps, alongside native iOS & Android Team collaboration: Slack & Jira integrations for workflow and issue tracking App startup monitoring: Tracks cold, warm, and hot starts for mobile apps Ideal for: Appxiom Why it’s trending: Key features: End-to-end performance monitoring Business transaction monitoring Cloud and on-prem support Automated baselining and alerting Ideal for: App Dynamics by Cisco Why it’s trending: Key features: Distributed tracing and error tracking Seamless integration with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash Open-source flexibility Lightweight agents for multiple languages Ideal for: Elastic.co TL;DR Tool Best for Key Strength Datadog Cloud-native apps Full-stack monitoring + AI alerts New Relic Small & medium teams Affordable & easy-to-use dashboards Appxiom Mobile apps Shows revenue loss, churn risk, and goal failures (30+ Bug types are identified) AppDynamics Enterprises Performance tied to revenue & business metrics Elastic APM Open-source enthusiasts Flexible, lightweight, ELK integration  ( 8 min )

I originally posted this post on my blog. Finding good bad examples is hard. I've worked with ugly codebases that I don't want to revisit. But copying and pasting from them isn't a good idea. Apart from privacy issues, complex business rules and convoluted code blocks make them unusable for tutorials or lessons. A good bad example needs to be messy enough to teach from, but not so broken it confuses readers. Since we have all seen a good movie or gone to the cinema, I've shifted to movies and TV shows. They're familiar enough to use as examples. In fact, for my book, Street-Smart Coding, I chose a ticket pricing example that was clear but messy enough to teach a lesson. Here it is: // Simple ticket price logic float CalculatePrice(MovieTicketRequest request) { var ticketBasePrice = 40…  ( 7 min )

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋 Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Badge!  ( 6 min )

React is packed with terminology that can sound intimidating at first—components, JSX, props, state, and hooks. But don't worry! In this two-part series, we'll break down every major React concept into simple, easy-to-understand explanations. Part 1 (this post) covers the essential fundamentals you need to start building React apps. Part 2 will dive into advanced patterns for building production-ready applications. By the end of this post, you'll understand the core building blocks of React and be ready to create your first interactive components! What are they? Components are the foundation of every React app. They're reusable pieces that represent visible parts of your UI—like buttons, inputs, forms, or entire pages. Why are they useful? Think of components like Lego blocks. Once you …  ( 13 min )

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When I started trying GStreamer with Python on Windows 10, it took me quite some time to set up the development environment. So this might help others on the way. The most convenient approach is through MSYS2. Here are the steps: 1.Download and install MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org. Remember [msys2_path] for environment variable. 2.Install Python, GStreamer, tools, plugins, and PyGObject Open MSYS2 UCRT64 terminal Update MSYS2 pacman -Syu. After this, the terminal may close; you need to open it again. Install gcc pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc Install Python, GStreamer, tools, plugins, and PyGObject pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 mingw-w64-x86_64-gstreamer mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-devtools mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-plugins-{base,good,bad,ugly} mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject Add the following paths to ~/.bashrc export PATH="/mingw64/bin:$PATH" export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/mingw64/share/:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" Apply bashrc: source ~/.bashrc 3.Test: run this on the terminal pip install pygobject python -c "import gi; gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0'); from gi.repository import Gst; print(Gst.version_string())"  ( 6 min )

When large parts of the internet suddenly stop working, most people assume their Wi-Fi is down or their devices are acting up. But sometimes, the cause is far bigger. That was the case today when a major outage at Cloudflare, one of the most influential companies behind the scenes of the web, caused widespread disruptions across websites, apps, and online services—including X (formerly Twitter). For many users, this raised a simple question: How can one company affect such a massive portion of the internet? To understand the answer, we need to dig into what Cloudflare does, why so many companies rely on it, and how even a rare disruption can feel like the internet is collapsing. Cloudflare is a global internet infrastructure and security company, and millions of websites use it every day—e…  ( 9 min )

The web in 2025 is faster, smarter, and more dynamic than ever. But how your app renders still determines whether users stay or bounce. Let’s decode SSR, SSG, and ISR — and which one truly wins today. SSR generates HTML on-demand for every request. Frameworks like Next.js, Angular Universal, and Nuxt.js shine here. SEO-friendly and fast first paint. Always delivers the latest data. Heavier server load. Slower on repeated requests. export async function getServerSideProps() { const data = await fetchAPI(); return { props: { data } }; } SSG builds pages once at build time — lightning-fast delivery with CDN caching. Instant page loads. Super cost-effective and scalable. Data becomes stale until rebuild. export async function getStaticProps() { const posts = await fetchPosts(); return { props: { posts } }; } ISR is the hybrid approach — it combines SSG’s speed with SSR’s freshness by rebuilding pages in the background. Near real-time updates. Great balance of performance and data accuracy. export async function getStaticProps() { const posts = await fetchPosts(); return { props: { posts }, revalidate: 60, // Rebuild every 60s }; } Feature SSR SSG ISR In 2025, ISR is the sweet spot — it gives you the speed of SSG with the freshness of SSR. For pure static content, go SSG. For real-time dashboards, choose SSR. But if you want both — ISR is your best friend.  ( 7 min )

Taking on a new challenge: solving GeeksforGeeks POTD daily and sharing my solutions! 💻🔥 Problem: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/number-of-ways-to-arrive-at-destination/1 Path With Minimum Effort Difficulty: Medium Accuracy: 53.13% You are given a 2D array mat[][], of size n*m. Your task is to find the minimum possible path cost from the top-left cell (0, 0) to the bottom-right cell (n-1, m-1) by moving up, down, left, or right between adjacent cells. Examples: Input: mat[][] = [[2, 2, 2, 1], Constraints: Solution: while pq: d, x, y = heapq.heappop(pq) if (x,y) == (n-1,m-1): return d for dx, dy in [(1,0),(-1,0),(0,1),(0,-1)]: nx, ny = x+dx, y+dy if 0<=nx<n and 0<=ny<m: nd = max(d, abs(mat[nx][ny] - mat[x][y])) if nd < dist[nx][ny]: dist[nx][ny] = nd heapq.heappush(pq, (nd, nx, ny))  ( 7 min )

Kiro Goes GA - And It Just Replaced My Favorite CLI! AWS announced the General Availability of Kiro on 11/17/25, and the update included several new features that immediately caught my attention. I have already appreciated Kiro for its vibe coding, specs-driven development approach, MCP integrations, and hooks. However, the most notable change for me was the introduction of the Kiro CLI and its seamless integration with the Kiro IDE. I had originally planned to explore the Kiro CLI over the upcoming weekend… but little did I know my exploration would take a surprising turn. Goodbye Q CLI, Hello Kiro CLI! While checking the documentation, I discovered something unexpected: Kiro CLI has officially replaced the Amazon Q Developer CLI In other words : one of my favorite dev tool CLIs got repl…  ( 7 min )

SQL as Contract vs. Python as Procedure — a Short Note on Atlas vs. Alembic The useful question isn’t “which tool is better?” but “what is our source of truth?” If your team wants the database schema itself—its tables, constraints, and indexes—to be the contract you review and protect, you’ll likely prefer a declarative, SQL‑first approach (Atlas‑style). If your team prefers to encode change as Python steps that live next to application code, you’ll likely prefer an imperative, script‑first approach (Alembic‑style). Declarative (state‑based) thinking starts from the destination. You write down the desired schema and let the tool compute a plan from current → desired. Review happens in the database’s language (DDL), not through an ORM’s interpretation. Because the plan is derived, it tends …  ( 7 min )

A lightweight static website boilerplate built on Eleventy and Nunjucks. https://github.com/quesby/quesby-boilerplate https://quesby.dev  ( 6 min )

JavaScript is designed on an object-based paradigm. How we use methods on primitives type🤔? How does JavaScript handle them? Let's go deep into it.🤗✌️ Primitive values null undefined string number bigint boolean symbol For example: let message="hello"; console.log(message.toUpperCase()); We said methods are actions that can be performed on object. But string is a primitive type so the JS engine highly optimize this process: JavaScript automatically boxes primitives into relevant objects when it encounters method calls on them.(Boxing) That method runs and returns a new value. const message=new String("hello"); The special object is destroyed, leaving the primitive string alone.(UnBoxing) The "object wrappers" are different for each primitive type and are called: String, Number, Boolean, Symbol and BigInt. Thus they provide different sets of methods. Null and undefined have no methods null and undefined are exceptions. They have no corresponding “wrapper objects” and provide no methods. In a sense, they are “the most primitive”.  ( 6 min )

uniapp里的富文本展示的时候，要控制里面的图片的最大宽度； //处理富文本里的图片宽度限制的样式 processedDetail(html) { if(!html){ return ''; } // 处理方法1: 强制替换所有图片样式 html = html.replace(/]*>/g, (imgTag) => { // 移除 width 和 height 属性 imgTag = imgTag.replace(/(width|height)=["'][^"']*["']/g, ''); // 处理 style 属性 if (imgTag.includes('style=')) { // 移除原有的 width/height 样式，添加 max-width imgTag = imgTag.replace(/style=["']([^"']*)["']/, (match, style) => { style = style.replace(/(width|height|max-width)[^;]*;?/g, ''); return `style="${style}max-width: 100% !important; height: auto !important; display: block;"`; }); } else { // 没有 style 属性，直接添加 imgTag = imgTag.replace('<img', '<img style="max-width: 100% !important; height: auto !important; display: block;"'); } return imgTag; }); return html; }  ( 6 min )

TL,DR; I used Google Antigravity to roll out a feature improvement on the blog using Google Antigravity in under an hour! The task was to upgrade the Weekly Macro Report section of my blog, shifting from a manual coding approach to "vibe coding." The session resulted in refactoring the content structure to support historical archiving, updating the GitHub workflow to save reports chronologically, and enhancing the AI generation prompt with Google Search grounding for better accuracy. If you are not familiar, I implemented the "Weekly Macro Report" using Github Actions and Gemini 2.5 Pro API using AI Studio. The Github Action calls the Gemini API with a predefined prompt and saves the response to a markdown file. The markdown file is then rendered by Hugo and displayed on the website. Thi…  ( 7 min )

After two years of steady evolution, PHP is preparing to ship another major update — PHP 8.5, scheduled for release in November 2025. As someone who builds production-grade applications daily, I see PHP 8.5 as a meaningful step forward. It isn’t as disruptive as the JIT introduction in PHP 8.0, but it brings a collection of practical improvements that enhance developer experience, safety, and performance. PHP continues its journey toward becoming a more expressive and modern language — while still keeping the clarity and pragmatism we rely on. Here’s my breakdown of what’s new, what’s going away, and why this release is worth paying attention to. For developers working with long-running scripts, queue workers, or background tasks, this is a welcome upgrade. pcntl_async_signals(true); pcntl…  ( 8 min )

Many SaaS engineers think SEO is “a marketing thing”, but in reality, it is deeply technical. When developers take ownership of search structure, load time, and scalability, the entire product becomes easier for users and search engines to understand. While reviewing insights from experts like MADX, I noticed that the most successful SaaS SEO strategies are built by development teams who integrate search optimization into their daily workflow. Here are eight effective workflows dev teams can adopt. 1. Semantic HTML structure Proper tags improve both accessibility and Google’s ability to interpret content. 2. Automated sitemap generation Dynamic SaaS products often create pages on the fly. 3. Lazy loading Use lazy loading for images and components to improve page performance. 4. Component-level performance profiling Profiling components reveals rendering bottlenecks that slow down key pages. 5. Pre-rendering for complex JavaScript Heavily JavaScript-driven SaaS dashboards often lose rankings because Google cannot fully interpret them. 6. Global CDN routing Routing content through a global CDN improves load times for international users. 7. Versioned documentation Developers who maintain versioned documentation create evergreen search assets automatically. 8. Git-based SEO fixes Treat SEO improvements like regular dev tasks. Final Thoughts Developers shape the foundation of search performance more than marketers realize. By integrating structured workflows like these, engineering teams can significantly increase product discoverability and long-term SEO stability.  ( 7 min )

Developer-led SaaS products have a huge advantage: technical teams understand structure, architecture, and performance better than anyone. But even with that advantage, many dev-founded projects fail to grow because they overlook SEO fundamentals. I was reviewing several case studies from companies like MADX, and it’s clear that technical SEO is still one of the highest-impact levers for SaaS growth. Here are seven actionable practices developers can integrate into their workflow today. 1. Architecture-first SEO Developers who map their site structure before writing content create stronger search outcomes. 2. API-friendly content generation Using your product’s API to generate dynamic, updated content creates indexable value. Trend dashboards Public uptime history Real-time stats pages Google rewards freshness and utility at scale. 3. Core Web Vitals Most developers know them, but few optimize consistently. CLS stability LCP improvement Input delay reduction High performance directly correlates with higher organic conversion. 4. Log file analysis Analyzing server logs helps identify how Googlebot interacts with your site. 5. Error monitoring systems Treat SEO issues like bugs. Crawl errors Broken internal links Page spikes Slowdowns This keeps organic traffic stable. 6. Schema markup Structured data is becoming increasingly important. 7. Accessible UI components Accessibility affects search performance more than ever. Final Thoughts Developer-led SaaS teams have the technical power to outperform competitors in SEO. The strategies above take advantage of that strength by aligning code, structure, and search intent with long-term discoverability.  ( 7 min )

I’m Mashraf Aiman, and today I’ll walk you through how GitHub Copilot really works with MCP tools. What looks like magic is actually a well-orchestrated process that fetches the exact information you need — quickly, accurately, and efficiently. When you ask Copilot something like "Are there any pull requests waiting for me?", it doesn’t guess. Behind the scenes, Copilot uses a tool from the GitHub MCP server designed to query your repositories. The MCP server exposes tools with names, descriptions, and input requirements. Copilot identifies the correct tool, fills in the parameters based on your context, and sends the request to the server. The MCP server returns structured data, which Copilot transforms into a clear, readable answer for you. You see concise pull request information instead of raw data. This step ensures that the model output is human-friendly, actionable, and instantly useful. To answer accurately, Copilot needs information like: Your GitHub username The repository you’re working in Current branch and other session metadata This context is explicitly provided by the client, so Copilot never has to guess. Understanding how tools, servers, and structured outputs work helps you: Know which tools are available and how to use them Configure MCP servers effectively Design workflows that maximize efficiency Magic is impressive, but knowledge gives control. GitHub Copilot with MCP tools is not about replacing developers; it’s about amplifying your capabilities. By understanding what happens behind the scenes, you can work smarter, automate repetitive tasks, and focus on building great software. Stay tuned for more insights into how Copilot, VS Code, and MCP work together to make development faster and smarter.  ( 8 min )

我这个三体实在一个平面内的，真三体没时间做了 B站视频讲解 三体 #earth{width:24px;height:24px;background: orange; left: 0; position: absolute; border-radius:50%;z-index: -9;} #moon{width:14px; height:14px; border-radius:50%; background:red; position:absolute;} #sun{width: 24px;height:24px;background: purple;border-radius: 12px;position: absolute;left: 200px;bottom: 0; } .box{position:relative;top:525px; left:50%; display: table;} .line1{width:600px;height:2px; background:…  ( 6 min )

B站视频讲解 双星 #earth{width:24px;height:24px;background: orange;margin-left: -12px;margin-top: -12px; left: 0;bottom: 0; position: absolute; border-radius:50%;z-index: -9;} #moon{width:14px; height:14px; border-radius:50%; background:red; margin-left:-7px;margin-top:-7px; position:absolute;} .box{position:relative;top:325px; left:50%;margin-top:-12px;margin-left:-12px;} .line1{width:600px;height:2px; background:red; position:absolute;left: 2px;top:-1px;} .line2{width:1px;height:400px; background:black; position:absolute;left…  ( 6 min )

B站视频讲解 月亮和地球 #earth{width:0px;height:0px;border:24px solid orange;position:relative;top:325px; left:50%;margin-top:-12px;margin-left:-12px; border-radius:50%;} #moon{width:14px; height:14px; border-radius:50%; background:red; margin-left:-7px;margin-top:-7px; position:absolute;} <di…  ( 6 min )

Blink Diagnostics: Decoding Health One Flutter at a Time Imagine a world where a simple blink could reveal hidden health insights. We're not quite there yet, but we're closer than you think. What if the subtle nuances of your eyelid movements could unlock early detection of neurological issues or provide insights into the severity of dry eye syndrome? The core concept revolves around using mobile computer vision to analyze eyelid movements in real-time. It leverages sophisticated algorithms to detect and measure blinks with incredible precision directly on a mobile device. This allows for immediate, objective data without relying on expensive or cumbersome equipment. Think of it like this: your eye movements are like Morse code, and the algorithm is the translator, deciphering the hidde…  ( 7 min )

stopPropagation() e.stopPropagation()的作用是 阻止事件继续冒泡（Propagation）。 当前元素的父元素不会再收到这个事件 祖先元素也不会收到这个事件 其他监听器（在冒泡阶段）不会被触发 catch (_) 中的 下划线 _ 只是一个变量名，表示“我不关心这个错误对象”。 在 JavaScript 中： try { // 可能会抛出错误的代码 } catch (err) { // err 是错误对象 } 但如果你 不需要使用错误对象（比如只想吞掉错误，不做处理），你可以写成： catch (_) {} 因为： catch 后面必须写一个“接收错误对象的变量名” 但你又不想使用它 使用 _ 表示“这个变量不会被用到”，是一种常见约定写法（语义等同于“忽略这个值”） 在 较新版本的 JavaScript（ES2019/ES10）中，可以写： catch {} 这是“可选 catch 绑定”语法，不需要变量名。 但如果为了兼容旧浏览器（特别是 Chrome 扩展很多人要求更广兼容性），开发者可能仍然写： catch (_) {} left: 50%：把这个元素的左边界放到父容器宽度的 50% 位置 chrome.runtime.getURL() 是 Chrome 扩展（Chrome Extension）专用 API，用于 根据扩展内的相对路径，生成一个可在网页 / 扩展脚本中使用的绝对 URL。 这是扩展开发中常用的一个函数，尤其在加载静态资源（图片、脚本、样式、模型文件等）时用得特别多。 把扩展内的文件路径转换成可访问的完整 URL 扩展的资源文件不能直接用相对路径访问，比如： assets/icon.png 在扩展运行时，Chrome 会把这些文件映射到一个特殊的扩展 URL，例如： chrome-extensi…  ( 7 min )

Fuel care for yachts has entered a new era in 2025, driven by evolving engine technologies, increasingly sensitive fuel systems, and the real-world challenges that yacht owners face when storing their vessels for extended periods. Modern engines—whether the Volvo Penta IPS600 on a 45-foot cruiser, a Yanmar 4LV on a sailing yacht, or the MAN V12 powering an 80-foot motor yacht—are built with tight tolerances and high-pressure injection systems that are far less forgiving of degraded or contaminated fuel. As a result, owners who overlook fuel stabilization often encounter hard starts, power loss, injector clogging, and bacterial contamination that can lead to thousands of dollars in repairs. This is where a proper understanding of fuel degradation becomes indispensable. In fact, many yacht o…  ( 15 min )

Have you ever found yourself painstakingly adding page numbers to a lengthy PDF report, contract, or manual? The sheer thought of manually updating each page can be a developer's nightmare. In today's fast-paced digital world, efficiency is key, and manual processes are often bottlenecks. Missing or incorrectly formatted page numbers can lead to confusion, difficulty in referencing, and a less professional-looking document. This is where automation shines. This article will guide you through a powerful and efficient solution: programmatically adding page numbers to PDF documents using C# and the Spire.PDF for .NET library. Say goodbye to manual drudgery and embrace a streamlined, automated workflow for your PDF Document Numbering needs. Page numbers are more than just cosmetic additions; t…  ( 10 min )

let bobberPhase = 0; const bobberAnimate = () => { if (!mini || !bobber.parentNode) return; // 已移除则停止 bobberPhase = (bobberPhase + 0.05) % (Math.PI * 2); const offsetY = Math.sin(bobberPhase) * 15; // -15px ~ +15px bobber.style.transform = `translateX(-50%) translateY(${offsetY}px)`; requestAnimationFrame(bobberAnimate); }; bobberAnimate(); // 启动 sin()永远在-1~1之间 % (Math.PI * 2) 2π 是正弦波的一个周期， 0 ~ 2π这一圈就够了。 不取模会导致 bobberPhase 无限变大 让动画永远平滑地循环 bobberPhase += 0.05，如果超过 2π，就从 0 重新开始 0 → 0.05 → 0.10 → ... → 6.28 → 0 → 0.05 → 0.10 → ...相位永远不会失控，也不会变成巨大数字。  ( 6 min )

git rebase main git checkout --theirs {path} git add . git rebase --continue  ( 6 min )

Matplotlib is a powerful and versatile open-source plotting library for Python, designed to help users visualize data in a variety of formats. Developed by John D. Hunter in 2003, it enables users to graphically represent data, facilitating easier analysis and understanding. If you want to convert your boring data into interactive plots and graphs, Matplotlib is the tool for you. Components or Parts of Matplotlib Figure The parts of a Matplotlib figure include (as shown in the figure above): Figure: The overarching container that holds all plot elements, acting as the canvas for visualizations. Axes: The areas within the figure where data is plotted; each figure can contain multiple axes. Axis: Represents the x-axis and y-axis, defining limits, tick locations, and labels for data interpre…  ( 16 min )

Google Antigravity launched today so I decided to give it a try. In this post, I'll walk through how I refreshed my professional portfolio using Google Antigravity, an advanced AI coding agent. What makes this update unique isn't just the content changes—it's how they were made. I completed the entire process without ever opening an external IDE, touching the command line, or visiting GitHub.com. I needed to update the main landing page (index.md) of my GitHub Pages portfolio. My goals were: Refine the Professional Profile: Make the bio more impactful. Add a Tagline: Create a strong hook to summarize my value. Privacy Updates: Remove specific graduation years. Formatting Fixes: Improve consistency. Instead of manually editing files, I simply told Antigravity what I wanted. The entire sess…  ( 7 min )

✨ The Story Begins There is always that one message from a friend that starts like this: “Hey… I do not think I can make it today because something came up.” My friend Mariana, a community manager for a local Instagram poet, had a problem. Her client publishes several poems every night as images. These images have handwritten text, stylized filters, shadows, messy backgrounds and artistic layouts. After a few months of doing this, all the poems were saved inside a Highlight titled “Poetry Vault.” It looks cute on Instagram. Mariana had 91 images waiting for her. Her brain in that moment looked like this: She told me she could not help me with something we had planned. She had to spend the entire day typing. So I said the sentence every developer eventually says: “We can automate this.” …  ( 8 min )

1. Components Activity 사용자 진입점, 여러활동이 함께 작동 가능, 서로 독립적. 화면을 추적, 시스템은 Activity가 호스팅하는 프로세스를 계속 실행. 백그라운드 계속 실행 진입점 시작된 서비스: 작업 완료 전까지 서비스 계속 실행하도록 시스템에 지시. (앱을 떠나도 유지) 바인딩된 서비스: 라이브 배경화면, 알림 리스너, 화면 보호기, 입력 방법, 접근성 서비스 및 기타 여러 핵심 시스템 기능 모두 애플리케이션이 구현하는 서비스로 빌드되며 애플리케이션이 실행될 때 시스템이 바인딩됨. 시스템이 이벤트를 앱이 시스템 전체 브로드캐스트에 응답할 수 있도록, 앱 공지사항. Broadcast는 Intent 객체로 전달 앱에서 알람을 예약하여 사용자에게 예정된 이벤트에 대해 알리는 알림을 게시 -- Intent --> BroadcastReceiver 데이터베이스 추상화 파일시스템 SQLite DB Web Intent라는 async 메시지는 4가지 구성요소 유형인 활동, 서비스, broadcast receiver를 분해. 런타임에 각 구성요소르르 서로 바인딩 AndroidManifest.xml 앱 구성 요소를 시작하려면 먼저 구성요소의 존재 여부를 확인하는 방법은 앱의 매니페스트 파일 앱이 요구하는 모든 사용자 권한 API 최솟값 앱이 요구하는 하드웨어, 소프트웨어 기능 앱을 연결해야하는 API 라이브러리  ( 6 min )

Class A class is a collection of objects. Classes are blueprints for creating objects. A class defines a set of attributes and methods that the created objects (instances) can have. Some points on Python class: Classes are created by keyword class. class Dog: species = "Canine" # Class attribute def __init__(self, name, age): self.name = name # Instance attribute self.age = age # Instance attribute Explanation: class Dog: Defines a class named Dog. init method: Initializes the name and age attributes when a new object is created. Objects An Object is an instance of a Class. It represents a specific implementation of the class and holds its own data. An object consists of: State: It is represented by the attributes and reflects the properties of an object. Beh…  ( 12 min )

Business Intelligence Overview Main Components of Business Intelligence System: Data Source Data Mart / Data Warehouse Data Exploration Data Mining Optimization Decisions Data Source Data Mart / Data Warehouse Data Exploration Data Mining Optimization Types of Users of Business Intelligence Analyst (Data Analyst or Business Analyst): They are the statistician of the company, they used BI on the basis of historical data priorly stored in the system. Head or Manager of the Company: Head of the company uses Business Intelligence used to increase the profitability of their company by increasing the efficiency in their decisions on the basis of all the knowledge they discovered. Types of Decisions Supported by Business Intelligence Strategic Level: The strategic level is the level where the H…  ( 9 min )

AI Amnesia: Erasing Knowledge Without a Trace Imagine your AI model accidentally learned something it shouldn't have – sensitive customer data, for example. Current methods for deleting this information often require retraining the entire model, an expensive and time-consuming process. What if we could surgically remove that knowledge without starting from scratch? The key lies in a novel approach: creating artificial "forgetting cues." We're teaching the model to unlearn specific data patterns by exposing it to carefully crafted synthetic examples. These examples are designed to strongly contradict the information we want the model to forget, effectively overwriting the problematic associations in its memory. This works even if you don’t have access to the original data you need to eras…  ( 7 min )

Have you ever wanted to automatically run a script, display a message, or execute a command when someone logs into your Linux system? Whether you're setting up a welcome message, initializing environment variables, or running system checks, Linux provides several powerful ways to execute commands during the login process. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the different methods and best practices for running commands on user login. When a user logs into a Linux system, several configuration files are executed in a specific order. Understanding these files is key to choosing the right place for your commands. 1. /etc/profile - System-wide configuration Executed for all users during login shell Requires root access to modify Perfect for global settings 2. ~/.bash_profile - User-specific…  ( 9 min )

The lumberjack paradox: From theory to practice Jennifer Davis for Google Cloud ・ Nov 19 #cloud #ai #programming  ( 6 min )

Previously, I shared my thoughts on Neal Sample’s "lumberjack paradox" and the urgent need to build the systems thinkers of tomorrow. I argued that leaders must move beyond simple efficiency and focus on re-engineering the experience (Dr. Gary Klein) and creating context to ensure we don't lose the path to deep expertise. But what does "leadership as context creator" look like in practice? For us in Cloud DevRel Engineering, it isn't abstract. It comes down to how we manage the most fundamental unit of our developer experience: the code sample. As Neal notes, AI will lead to the "industrialization of creativity"—an infinite supply of ideas and code. In this world, the premium shifts to discernment: the ability to distinguish the quality from the mediocre. But this isn't a choice between th…  ( 10 min )

ideation for web application i completed preparation of development too, then started to generate idea of application. with Miro. but i don't take so long time to do it. the plan is just plan. i wanna build some concrete things without consider detail. i use chatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude or Perplexity everyday. but i guess there are more efficient way of use. especially, now i just input one question or reflection and get answer, but with AI agent, set multi steps, might get more deep reflection. if ai know everything about me, have all the information of myself, ai can think and judge same as me. ai hear everything i heard, read everything i read, have all the set of my input and output and work as RAG. human encounter some issues, think and try to find how to shoot, but can't solve quickly, the day end, sleep, then next morning, sometimes the problem is solved, some solutions appear automatically. in the night, in brain, the issue is cultivated. such process can work in AI. input question and get answer, check, abstract task from it, and rethink, over and over.  ( 6 min )

We all know what variables are, and there are plenty of times where we find ourselves using objects or arrays with long property names on them over, and over, and over... Wouldn't it be nice to just have a variable referring to that property without assigning fifty variables manually? Well, that's where destructuring comes in - destructuring is a way of saving values from complex data types to a variable without having to make a bunch of them by hand. The basic syntax for destructuring is pretty simple, but a lot of people don't know how to use it, so let's go over a couple examples with both objects and arrays! We'll do this with the destructuring "binding" pattern, though there's also an "assignment" pattern. We can start with a basic object: const obj = { a: 1, two: 83, banana: 'b…  ( 10 min )

There are moments when Scripture stops being something we read and becomes something that reads us. Some verses instruct us. But some verses — like the ones in this chapter — expose us, reshape us, and redefine what a life with God looks like. They peel away our excuses, our spiritual shortcuts, our self-protective habits, and reveal the core of Christian identity: Love that mirrors the heart of God Himself. This chapter is not sentimental. It is the very oxygen of the Christian life. If you want the deepest, clearest, most transformational video breakdown of this chapter, watch this teaching early in your reading: Meaning of 1 Corinthians 13 This anchor link sits near the top because it forms the foundation you will build on as you explore the rest of this legacy document. You asked for m…  ( 14 min )

Prerequisites – Installing Homebrew and ASDF on Ubuntu IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 Documentation Open-cobol GNU COBOL (COBOL doesn’t use modern frameworks; these are the most common ones) GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL) — standard open-source compiler. TinyCOBOL — simple and educational. COBOL-IT — commercial, mainframe-compatible. sudo apt update sudo apt install open-cobol # or sudo apt install gnucobol brew install gnu-cobol COBOL **does not have an official package manager* (it’s not a modular ecosystem like Node or PHP).* There is no official ASDF plugin for COBOL. Important: In COBOL, the first 7 characters of each line must remain empty because they were originally reserved for sequence numbers used on punched cards. These numbers allowed cards to be physically reordered if shuffled. Even tho…  ( 8 min )

Welcome Thread - v351 Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team ・ Nov 12 #welcome  ( 6 min )

Greedy algorithms are a powerful problem-solving paradigm that makes locally optimal choices at each step, hoping to find a global optimum. While not always applicable, greedy algorithms provide elegant and efficient solutions to many optimization problems, especially those involving sequences, intervals, and resource allocation. This comprehensive guide combines theoretical understanding with practical problem-solving, featuring solutions to essential LeetCode problems that demonstrate core greedy algorithmic patterns. Greedy algorithms make the best local choice at each decision point, without considering future consequences. The key insight is that sometimes, making locally optimal choices leads to a globally optimal solution. Greedy algorithms work well when: Optimal substructure: Opti…  ( 17 min )

Hey everyone, I’m working on Davia, an open-source tool that generates an editable visual wiki from local code, complete with Notion-style pages and whiteboards. Would love your feedback or ideas! Check it out: Github  ( 6 min )

The Beginning However, how did it all begin? Let's go over GPT-1 through GPT-5 and how these models relate to our everyday lives. 1.The History: GPT-1 (2018)The Beginning of It All Get to know GPT 1 The Reason It Mattered 2. Expanding Up: GPT-2 (2019) AI was able to generate multi-paragraph text that sounded human for the first time. GPT-2 was capable of creating poetry, summarizing articles, and writing essays. It performs extremely well on a task known as language modeling, which evaluates a program's ability for predicting the next word that appears in a given sentence. If you give it a fake headline, it will write the rest of the piece, including fake statistics and quotes. It will tell you what happens to your character after you feed it the first line of a short story. If you give …  ( 11 min )

OpenAI has introduced GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model now available in its Codex developer environment. The release marks a significant step forward in AI-assisted software engineering, offering improved long-horizon reasoning, efficiency, and real-time interactive capabilities. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max will now replace GPT‑5.1-Codex as the default model across Codex-integrated surfaces. The new model is designed to serve as a persistent, high-context software development agent, capable of managing complex refactors, debugging workflows, and project-scale tasks across multiple context windows. It comes on the heels of Google releasing its powerful new Gemini 3 Pro model yesterday, yet still outperforms or matches it on key coding benchmarks: On SWE-Bench Verified, GPT‑5.1-…

Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, today announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and interoperability needed for large-scale AI agent ecosystems. The launch includes ASI:One, a personal-AI orchestration platform; Fetch Business, a verification and discovery portal for brand agents; and Agentverse, an open directory hosting more than two million agents. Together, the system positions Fetch as an infrastructure provider for what it calls the “Agentic Web”—a layer where consumer AIs and brand AIs collaborate to complete tasks instead of merely suggesting them. The company says the tools address a central limitation in current consumer AI: models can provide recommendations but …

A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world's most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centric videos up to five minutes long — a dramatic leap beyond the capabilities of rivals including OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo. CraftStory, which launched Tuesday with $2 million in funding, is introducing Model 2.0, a video generation system that addresses one of the most significant limitations plaguing the nascent AI video industry: duration. While OpenAI's Sora 2 tops out at 25 seconds and most competing models generate clips of 10 seconds or less, CraftStory's system can produce continuous, coherent video performances that run as long as a typical YouTube tutorial or product demonstration. The…

Premiering November 19 VentureBeat is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship podcast, Beyond the Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action, premiering November 19 and brought to you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco. Enterprise AI has reached a new inflection point: workloads are going live, and the constraints are getting real. The challenge for enterprise technical leaders isn’t understanding AI’s potential — it’s navigating the messy, complex work of making it run reliably at scale. Beyond the Pilot goes inside that reality with candid conversations from executives who’ve moved past experiments and into production — scaling AI and agentic systems that deliver measurable business value. “Enterprise technical leaders keep telling us the same thing: the hype cycle is loud, but what …

Researchers at Meta, the University of Chicago, and UC Berkeley have developed a new framework that addresses the high costs, infrastructure complexity, and unreliable feedback associated with using reinforcement learning (RL) to train large language model (LLM) agents. The framework, DreamGym, simulates an RL environment to train agents for complex applications. As it progresses through the training process, the framework dynamically adjusts task difficulty, ensuring the agent gradually learns to solve more challenging problems as it improves. Experiments by the research team show that DreamGym substantially improves RL training in both fully synthetic settings and scenarios where the model must apply its simulated learning to the real world. In settings where RL is possible but expensive…

Artificial intelligence is changing how big companies work every single day. What used to take hours of manual effort or long approval chains can now happen in seconds with AI-powered systems. From supply chains to IT operations, AI is helping enter...  ( 7 min )

Every game developer obsesses over performance, textures, and frame rates, but resolution is the quiet foundation that makes or breaks visual quality. Whether you are building a pixel-art indie game or a high-fidelity 3D world, understanding how res...  ( 7 min )

Learn how to use Three.js and Blender to design a stunning and interactive 3D portfolio! We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will take you from the foundational concepts of 3D modeling in Blender to creating a fully f...  ( 4 min )

Manufacturing is getting a major system upgrade. As AI amplifies existing technologies—like digital twins, the cloud, edge computing, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT)—it is enabling factory operations teams to shift from reactive, isolated problem-solving to proactive, systemwide optimization. Digital twins—physically accurate virtual representations of a piece of equipment, a production line, a process,…  ( 18 min )

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1 The news: A group of quantum physicists at Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek…  ( 23 min )

A group of quantum physicists claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into the original by its Chinese creators.  The scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specializing in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that is 55% smaller…  ( 22 min )

Qualcomm is reportedly set to launch its Snapdragon 8 Gen5 SoC later this month and more precisely, on 26 November. Yes, that’s not a typo and as such, it should not be confused with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 that the brand launched back in September at its annual Qualcomm Summit. According to multiple reports, […] The post Qualcomm To Launch Snapdragon 8 Gen5 SoC On 26 November appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

Apple is preparing a significant change for iPhone users, with the latest iOS 26.2 beta offering early signs of an upcoming option to replace Siri as the default voice assistant. Code discovered in beta 3 shows new strings describing Side Button behaviour, pointing to a feature that allows users to choose a different app to […] The post iOS 26.2 Beta Lets iPhone Users Swap Siri For Third-Party Voice Assistants, But… appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has incurred losses amounting to RM4.57 billion between 2020 and August this year due to electricity theft linked to illegal cryptocurrency mining. According to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, TNB discovered 13,827 premises engaging in such activities, including bitcoin farms. Fadillah, who also serves as the Energy Transition and […] The post TNB Reports RM4.57 Billion Loss From Illegal Bitcoin Mining Since 2020 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

realme has just announced that the Buds Clip, the brand’s first open-ear earbuds, is arriving in Malaysia on 24 November, coinciding with the GT 8 Pro. And right off the bat, the design is very reminiscent of Huawei’s own FreeClip earbuds. Marketed towards “young, active users”, the Buds Clip promises to eliminate the pressure and […] The post realme Buds Clip To Land In Malaysia On 24 November appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

It’s official: AMD will be premiering its next-generation upscaling technology, FSR Redstone, on 10 December this year. The red chipmaker isn’t divulging much else, meaning that we’ll have to wait until the date to hear more. Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Group at AMD, has mentioned on […] The post AMD Set To Unveil FSR Redstone On 10 December appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

ARM and NVIDIA have announced that the former will be joining the latter’s NVLink Fusion ecosystem. The announcement was made at the recent Supercomputing 25 conference. “Arm is integrating NVLink IP so that their customers can build their CPU SoCs to connect Nvidia GPUs,” said Dion Harris, the head of data center product marketing at […] The post ARM Joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Ecosystem appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

Among all Meta-owned messaging apps, WhatsApp appears to be the only one that still lacks multi-account support, at least for iOS. However, it seems that the messaging platform is working to address that issue soon enough. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will allow users to quickly move between different WhatsApp accounts right from the settings […] The post WhatsApp To Roll Out Multi-Account Support For iOS Soon appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Logitech, one of the world’s biggest PC accessories makers, recently confirmed that it was a victim of hacking. It says that a zero-day vulnerability was how the hacker got past its cybersecurity. In a filing to the SEC, Logitech says that the hacker made off with 1.8TB of company data, but that none of the […] The post Logitech Confirms 1.8TB Of Data Was Stolen By Hackers appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Opensignal has released its Malaysia Mobile Network Experience – November 2025 report, offering a fresh breakdown of how the country’s major operators stacked up over the past year. The latest findings show noticeable shifts in several categories, with underdog Unifi surprisingly emerging as the biggest overall winner. According to the report, Unifi users enjoy the […] The post TM’s Unifi Outshines Rivals In Opensignal’s 2025 Mobile Network Report appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

Roblox will soon be rolling out a mandatory age verification system, requiring all users to provide an ID or a face scan to use the platform’s chat features. The policy will first take effect in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in December. Afterwards, the policy will expand to other markets early next year. The […] The post Roblox Rolls Out Age Verification System; Users Now Required To Send Selfies For Chat Feature appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Earlier this month, HONOR confirmed that it will be releasing its newest flagship smartphone on our shores. Now, the company has announced that the Magic8 Pro will make its Malaysian debut next week, on 27 November 2025. As previously revealed, the highlight of the handset is the camera system, or more specifically, what the brand […] The post HONOR Magic8 Pro Locks In 27 November Launch Date appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Global network provider Cloudflare has published a statement via its official blog concerning the major six-hour disruption yesterday on 18 November 2025, which impacted websites and services worldwide. The incident began at 7:20pm local time and resulted in significant traffic failures across its network. Among those affected included our own website and forum, as well […] The post Cloudflare Issues Statement Regarding 18 November Outage appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Last week, DJI released the Osmo Action 6 in China. Despite its early launch in the drone maker’s home market, the action camera made its Malaysian debut right on schedule. Of course, at this point there’s nothing left to the imagination when it comes to the device. But to recap, the Osmo Action 6 sports […] The post DJI Osmo Action 6 Lands In Malaysia; Priced From RM2,079 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

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At some point in their lives, every software engineer eventually faces the task of debugging an app live on a remote server. If that app happens to be running on ECS Fargate, getting into that container safely is possible, but not immediately obvious. Full disclosure: I haven’t done this exact thing before, but I have used the same port-forwarding trick to peek into our RDS instances via an ECS task acting as a jumpbox. So yes, I tested these instructions, and yes, they actually work. Here’s what we have: A Node.js app deployed to ECS Fargate Inside a private VPC subnet Without SSH access (Fargate doesn’t do that) VS Code (or some other IDE with Node.js inspector support) First, make sure your ECS task’s running Node.js process with the inspector enabled. This can be achieved by passing a …  ( 8 min )

O uso de um agente de IA para advogado autônomo deixou de ser tendência e passou a ser uma ferramenta indispensável para quem trabalha sozinho e precisa otimizar tempo, reduzir tarefas repetitivas e aumentar a produtividade. Logo nos primeiros usos, fica evidente como a automação inteligente impacta a rotina jurídica, permitindo que o profissional atue com mais precisão, agilidade e foco estratégico. Ao compreender como funcionam esses sistemas e como aplicá‑los no dia a dia, o advogado ganha uma vantagem competitiva enorme, especialmente em um mercado onde velocidade e qualidade de atendimento fazem toda a diferença. O agente de IA para advogado autônomo é um sistema capaz de analisar informações jurídicas, automatizar tarefas administrativas, organizar documentos e até auxiliar em pesqui…  ( 9 min )

🤔 The problem If you ever managed to create a Dataverse Dashboard containing an HTML WebResource (e.g. to show some calculated KPI), by default the resulting UI is quite ugly: What I don't like: Each WebResource component has a surrounding black border I would like to get rid of The minimum vertical space that can be occupied by the WebResources row is 6 lines. Too much for my needs. For both points, the Dashboard editor doesn't provides any option to fix the problem: No option to remove the border And I cannot reduce the vertical space As usual, the solution is quite simple via small XML tweaking. Step 1. Create a new solution In my case I already had a "ribbon" solution ready to use, thus in the screenshots below you'll see that one. Step 2. Add the dashboard as the only component …  ( 7 min )

Test: ¿Qué perfil STEM financiero tienes? .container { max-width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; background: white; border-radius: 15px; box-shadow: 0 10px 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); overflow: hidden; } /* Sección 1: Bienvenida */ .bienvenida { background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1e3c72 0%, #2a5298 50%, #7e22ce 100%); color: white; padding: 50px 30px; text-align: center; } .bienvenida h1 { font-size: 2.8em; margin-bottom: 20px; text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); } .bienvenida .objetivo { font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.8; opacity: 0.95; max-width: 700px; margin: 0 auto; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; backdrop-fi…  ( 11 min )

A capacidade de criar imagem com inteligência artificial online transformou completamente a forma como designers, criadores de conteúdo, empreendedores e usuários comuns produzem imagens impressionantes em poucos segundos. Nos primeiros usos, já fica evidente que as plataformas modernas de IA conseguem entender descrições complexas, estilos artísticos, iluminação e até emoções, permitindo que qualquer pessoa gere visuais dignos de profissionais sem precisar dominar softwares avançados. Criar imagens com IA envolve modelos treinados com bilhões de dados visuais que aprendem padrões estéticos, formas, composições e estilos. Quando alguém decide criar imagem com inteligência artificial online, a plataforma interpreta o texto digitado e converte essa descrição em pixels organizados de forma co…  ( 9 min )

Last week I heard bad news, and life hit me hard again. Moments like that remind me how fragile everything is — how one day we all leave, and even love can feel temporary. In the middle of all this, I saw a post on X saying Gemini’s File Search Tool makes RAG super easy and is being offered at a really reasonable cost. I don’t know why, but something about it pushed me to try it Google announced the File Search Tool, a fully managed search Augmentation generation (RAG) system built directly into the Gemini API. Previously, to build a RAG, you had to choose a vector database, develop a chunking strategy, call an embedding model, and tie everything together. The file search tool handles all of that automatically behind the API. These were major barriers for companies wanting to introduce AI,…  ( 12 min )

Let me guess: someone in a meeting said "Why don't we just create a page for every possible keyword combination?" and here you are, Googling whether this is genius or career suicide. The answer is yes. Programmatic SEO—generating thousands of landing pages using templates and data—can work spectacularly well. Zillow has millions of pages. Tripadvisor has millions more. Nomad List built an entire business model on it. But for every success story, there are dozens of sites that got slapped with manual actions or simply created 50,000 pages that nobody visits and Google doesn't care about. I've watched companies generate 100,000 pages in a weekend and celebrate. Then watched them scramble to delete 90,000 of them three months later when traffic never materialized and their crawl budget implod…  ( 12 min )

A evolução das ferramentas de voz sintetizada mudou drasticamente a forma como criadores de conteúdo, empreendedores e profissionais de atendimento se comunicam digitalmente. Entre essas tecnologias, eleven labs ai em português se tornou uma solução extremamente procurada por quem deseja criar áudios naturais, envolventes e com entonação semelhante à de um ser humano real. Logo nos primeiros testes, muitos usuários percebem que a plataforma ultrapassa os limites da simples conversão de texto em fala e oferece recursos avançados que transformam a produção de conteúdo em áudio. O Eleven Labs surgiu como uma tecnologia revolucionária focada em sintetizar vozes cada vez mais naturais. Quando o suporte para eleven labs ai em português foi implementado, criadores brasileiros passaram a explorar …  ( 9 min )

AI-powered coding tools are evolving fast, and choosing the right workflow is becoming a real architectural decision, not just a convenience choice. What’s the practical difference between building with Cursor vs Replit? Both are strong tools, but they solve different problems in an AI-driven development stack. Here’s a quick breakdown for anyone evaluating their next AI coding setup. Replit shines when: You want zero-setup cloud environments You need to spin up ideas quickly You prefer a collaborative, browser-based space It's all about speed, accessibility, and low friction, great for prototypes, students, or fast experimentation. Cursor focuses on: Working inside your local workflow Giving you full control over your code and environment Keeping your development private and customizable It's a strong option for engineering teams that want AI copilots with local context, version control, and security. So… Cloud Speed or Local Control? This is the trade-off many teams are navigating today. And honestly, the “right choice” has more to do with your workflow than with the tools themselves. To make this comparison easier to digest, we put together a short visual breakdown that highlights the core differences. Have you used either tool in your day-to-day work?  ( 6 min )

Today marks a massive milestone in AI: Google has officially released Gemini 3, kicking off what the company is calling "the Gemini 3 era." Announced just hours ago by Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) and the latest flagship model from Google DeepMind is now rolling out across the Gemini app, Google Search's AI Mode, Vertex AI, and more. If you've been waiting for Google to go all-in on next-level reasoning, multimodality, and agentic capabilities — this is it. Gemini 3 isn't just an incremental update — it's built from the ground up for a world where AI doesn't just answer questions but brings ideas to life. Google describes it as their most intelligent model yet, combining breakthrough reasoning with native multimodal understanding (text, images, video, audio, and code) and powerf…  ( 8 min )

When a Single Company Can Break the Internet RIVAL ・ Nov 18 #cloudflare #currentevents #outage #cloud  ( 6 min )

Como Calcular ROI Real da Portabilidade de Energia: Planilha e Percentuais 2025 Você já se perguntou se vale realmente a pena migrar para o mercado livre de energia? Com promessas de economia de até 40%, é natural querer entender os números reais por trás da portabilidade de energia. A boa notícia é que calcular o ROI (Retorno sobre Investimento) da portabilidade não é complicado — e pode revelar uma economia significativa no seu orçamento. Segundo dados da CCEE, o mercado livre deve atingir 70% de penetração entre consumidores elegíveis até 2026, impulsionado principalmente pela economia real que oferece. Mas como saber se você faz parte dos que podem se beneficiar? E mais importante: como calcular exatamente quanto você pode economizar? Neste guia completo, vou te mostrar como criar su…  ( 11 min )

Master your Notion in minutes by using the Relations feature to link your scattered databases—no more digging through endless pages of tasks, notes, and projects. This quick walkthrough shows why most setups break down, how to connect tables with Relations, and how to build self-filtering templates that automatically organize new entries. You’ll get a step-by-step example (both manual and automated), complete with timestamps, a free duplicatable template, links to a full Command Center course, plus bonus gear and productivity resources to level up your workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

‘Weird Science’ Rewatch Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive into John Hughes’s 1985 teen comedy, unpacking the wild premise—two nerdy teens who accidentally create the perfect woman—and the film’s mix of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll (plus chips, dips, chains and whips). With Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith leading the charge, they riff on the movie’s greatest moments, its ’80s vibe and why it still holds up as a cult classic. Behind the Mic This episode of Ringer Movies’ Rewatchables is produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, and—true to form—serves up a healthy dose of nostalgia, humor and insider trivia. Whether you’re a die-hard Hughes fan or just in it for the ’80s antics, Bill and Kyle make this episode a blast from the past. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

AWS just released a new pricing model for CloudFront. Now you can pay a fixed price. As most of you know, calculating the cost in AWS can be hard, especially on resources where traffic is the cost driver (like CloudFront). So this change will make it a lot easier. So how will this work then? There will be different plans with varying costs that include CloudFront and other services in the pricing. You will select the plan you want when deploying your CloudFront Distribution. For current distributions, you can “migrate” them to the plan of your choice by selecting to switch to a plan for your distribution in the console (right now, the console is the only place to set plans). If the current deployment configuration matches what the plan provides, you will be able to use that plan. The dif…  ( 9 min )

In every project, the first thing is to create a Resource Group Storage Account, Create a Storage Account for any Department share file, but in this article, I will use the Finance Department Step 1 storage account and hit enter, and choose the storage account that is grayed out Step 2 + Create Step 3 resource group section and click create new, but if there is an existing resource group, click the drop-down arrow and select and click ok Step 4 storage account name section and type a name in the bar. Remember the naming convention that it must be globally unique, choose a Region as usual, and for Performance, choose Premium, for premium account type select file share, and for redundancy, select zone redundant storage, and review + create Step 5 create Step 6 Go to Resource Steps on …  ( 7 min )

Muchas bodegas en Chile han invertido en sistemas de gestión que, con el tiempo, se quedan cortos frente al aumento de referencias, ubicaciones o complejidad en los flujos logísticos. Cuando el software no crece al mismo ritmo que la operación, se generan cuellos de botella, errores en inventario y sobrecostos difíciles de controlar. Un software de gestión de bodegas (WMS) adaptable permite que la operación evolucione sin fricciones, respondiendo a nuevas demandas sin perder trazabilidad ni eficiencia. Un software para bodegas diseñado para escalar debe permitir ajustar reglas, tareas y capacidades sin requerir desarrollos complejos. Esto se traduce en continuidad operativa y control total sobre procesos como recepción, almacenamiento, reabastecimiento y despacho. Entre los aspectos más …  ( 7 min )

Remember when everyone and their marketing intern was churning out carousel posts? Slide 1: "Here's the problem." Slide 2-9: Generic advice you could find anywhere. Slide 10: "Follow me for more." Well, LinkedIn finally noticed. Between July and October 2025, data from multiple analytics platforms shows that text-based "knowledge posts" are outperforming carousel content by an average of 340% in terms of meaningful engagement (comments, shares, and profile visits—not just mindless likes). Some accounts are seeing even wider gaps. This isn't a minor tweak. This is LinkedIn fundamentally rewiring what it considers valuable content. LinkedIn rolled out what they're calling the "Knowledge Graph Update" in three waves starting in June 2025. They didn't announce it with fanfare because, well, t…  ( 13 min )

Why You Should Start Using Next.js Route Groups Edema Ero ・ Nov 18 #nextjsroutegroups #nextjsapprouter #nextjslayouts #nextjsroutingbestpractices  ( 6 min )

Today’s Cloudflare outage didn’t stem from a DDoS attack — it came from inside Cloudflare’s own control plane, a configuration propagation failure. This configuration failure cascaded across the internet and took down thousands of sites, apps, and services in minutes. And that’s exactly why developers should be worried. If this were an attack, we could at least point to an external threat, bad actor, or a vulnerability. But when a single internal error at a single provider can break huge portions of the internet, it exposes a deeper architectural issue: extreme infrastructure centralization. The modern internet runs on a tiny group of hyperscalers and edge networks like Cloudflare, AWS, Google, Meta, Fastly, and Akamai. They power everything from DNS and CDNs to authentication, caching, ro…  ( 7 min )

As the FIFA World Cup 2026 draws near, football enthusiasts are abuzz with excitement and anticipation. The quadrennial spectacle promises to be a thrilling ride, with a plethora of talented national teams vying for the coveted title. A recent article by Sports Illustrated ranked the top 10 favorites to win the tournament. Let's delve into the list, exploring each team's strengths, weaknesses, and prospects. Brazil tops the list as a favorite, and it's hard to argue against their credentials. With an arsenal of skilled players like Neymar, Alisson, and Richarlison, they possess a formidable attacking force. However, their defensive vulnerabilities have been exposed in recent tournaments. Argentina's Lionel Messi is a once-in-a-generation talent, but the team's overall depth remains a conce…  ( 7 min )

Starting a project with NestJS and Prisma should be easy, right? They’re both popular technologies and a great match. There are even official articles (1)(2) explaining how to integrate them. Wrong. For some reason, those articles are outdated. So here I am, writing this guide to save you a serious headache when setting up your project. 💡 I’ll be using pnpm for this project, but feel free to use any package manager you prefer. You’ll be prompted to choose a package manager. Select pnpm if you want to follow this guide without changes. Otherwise, adapt as needed. 💡 At the time of writing, the latest version of @nestjs/cli appears to have a bug, so I'm using an older version. This may have been resolved by the time you're reading. pnpm dlx @nestjs/cli@11.0.0 new nestjs-prisma-test Create …  ( 7 min )

Here's the pattern every ecommerce marketer knows: December hits, revenue spikes, champagne flows. January arrives, and those eager holiday shoppers? Gone. Vanished. Like they never existed. You acquired them at premium CPAs during the most competitive shopping season of the year. They bought once, maybe twice. Then silence. The real money isn't in that first December purchase. It's in February, May, and September when they come back without you spending another dollar on acquisition. But that only happens if you actually have a plan for the week after they buy. Most brands don't. They send a shipping confirmation, maybe a review request, then... nothing until the next promotional blast. Which gets ignored because there's no relationship there. Let's fix that. December customers aren't you…  ( 12 min )

Free, offline-capable, multi-language financial statement analysis for Ukrainian businesses - powered 100% in the browser (no servers, no API keys). Live Demo: https://whitewaw.github.io/Assessment-of-Ukrainian-financial-statements/ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/whitewAw/Assessment-of-Ukrainian-financial-statements Small and medium businesses in Ukraine (and anywhere) often need quick insights from their balance sheet and income statement without sending data to third-party services or paying SaaS fees. I wanted: Zero back-end infrastructure Professional-grade ratio analysis and multi-year comparison Installable PWA with offline mode Strict privacy: data never leaves the browser AI assistance without OpenAI keys or billing surprises Blazor WebAssembly + Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano mad…  ( 9 min )

Before we dive into the details, here is the video version of this article if you prefer to watch it first and then come back here for a slower, written walkthrough. If you prefer to read, you can safely skip it and continue with the examples below. Let's begin with an easy example to make things concrete. You open a new chat and ask Copilot a simple but very practical question: "is there any pull request waiting for me?" After a brief pause and some behind-the-scenes magic, Copilot replies with the exact list of pull requests that need your attention. No manual search, no switching tabs. In the rest of this article, we'll unpack what actually happened behind the scenes. In this article, we'll look at how that "magic" of MCP Tools really works, using the GitHub MCP server as an exampl…  ( 9 min )

Antigravity IDE: the next generation of AI-powered code editors Artificial intelligence has transformed how we write, learn, and now, how we code. If VS Code symbolized the modern era of development, Antigravity IDE represents the next frontier: an environment capable of understanding the developer, anticipating intentions, and collaborating proactively in software creation. The concept of Antigravity doesn’t come from an actual Google tool but from a metaphor — the idea of rising above current limitations. In Python, import antigravity was a humorous nod to the absurd and brilliant nature of programming. In this new context, Antigravity becomes a vision of AI-augmented development, where the editor stops being a passive canvas and evolves into an intelligent partner. Antigravity IDE wou…  ( 7 min )

Antigravity IDE: la nueva generación de editores impulsados por IA La inteligencia artificial ha cambiado la forma en que escribimos, aprendemos y ahora también, cómo programamos. Si VS Code fue el símbolo del desarrollo moderno, Antigravity IDE representa la siguiente frontera: un entorno capaz de comprender al desarrollador, anticipar sus intenciones y colaborar en la creación de software de forma proactiva. El concepto Antigravity no surge de una herramienta real de Google, sino de una metáfora: la capacidad de elevarse por encima de las limitaciones actuales. En Python, import antigravity era una broma sobre lo absurdo y genial del código. En este nuevo contexto, Antigravity se convierte en una visión de desarrollo aumentado por IA, donde el editor deja de ser un espacio pasivo para …  ( 7 min )

Part 1 — MCP server: turn your docs into a local resource Why do this? If you let Kiro read your local Godot docs via an MCP filesystem server, your assistant will: Use the exact docs for the engine version you downloaded (no hallucinations). Work offline and fast (no network latency). Require minimal CPU/RAM on your machine (indexing is small or optional). This guide covers the MCP server portion — turning your downloaded HTML/MD files into a resource Kiro can query. Later parts of this post will add Kiro agent hooks and steering (placeholders are left for those sections). GodotEngine Docs Scroll down and click Stable (or Latest) to download the documentation — expect a ~300–400 MB zip. Extract it to a folder you control (for example Documents), and rename the top-lev…  ( 7 min )

Hey everyone! In the last few years, I’ve been working as a software developer mainly in remote environments (mostly with Docker based workspaces), so I’ve come into contact with many workspace provisioners. I really like this way to work, everything is reproducible and problems due to the development environment are minimized. On the other hand many workspace provisioners that I’ve tried are very difficult to use and the defining the structure of workspace is not quite easy and sometimes it takes a long time to learn and this is not ideal for small teams. So a question came to mind: why this provisioners don’t use standard tools and formats to define the structure of a workspace? That idea eventually became Codebox, a side project that has now reached its first open-source beta. In this a…  ( 8 min )

Everything Wrong With The Wiz In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back on the yellow brick road, using the buzz around Wicked’s theatre return to rip apart 1978’s The Wiz—slicing through every plot hole, oddball moment, and “sin” in just 15 minutes. Wanna dig deeper? Check out all their channels (TVSins, CommercialSins, CinemaSins Podcast), hit up their site or Linktree for the latest, join the sinful poll, and consider supporting the team on Patreon. Plus, they’re everywhere—Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and more! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

No OAuth Required: An MCP Client For AWS IAM Dennis Traub for AWS ・ Nov 18 #ai #agents #mcp #aws  ( 5 min )

Create and configure a storage account for Azure Files. In this applied skills exercise, I will demonstrate how to create a step by step guide in creating an Azure storage account with a *globally unique name. storage account for the finance department’s shared files. Learn more about storage accounts for. portal, search for and select *Storage accounts. Step 2. Add a directory to the file share for the finance department. For future testing, upload a file. + Add directory. Browse and then select the *finance directory. + Add snapshot. The comment is optional. *Select OK. file share. Browse to your file directory. uploaded file and in the Properties, pane select *Delete. Select Yes to confirm the deletion. Snapshots blade and then select your snapshot. restore, *Configure restricting storage access to selected virtual networks. Virtual networks. vnetlab01 Go to resource. Subnets blade. subnet. Microsoft.Storage in the Services drop-down. Save your changes. storage account should only be accessed from the *virtual network you just created Security + networking section, select the *Networking blade. In the *Virtual networks section, select *Add existing virtual network. Be sure to ****Save your changes. Select the *Storage browser and navigate to your *file share. #Virtualization #RDP #CloudComputing #Techblog #ITInfrasttructure #MS #AZURE #VirtualMachine #Innovation #Technologytrend #AZURE # AZUREBLOB #DEVOPS VMWARE #HYPER-V #DevCommunity #Tech #CoachRaphaelGab-Momoh #Skill.Sch #SSLAB #LinkedInTechCommunity  ( 8 min )

When operating in the cloud, data storage and recovery are among the most crucial components. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive array of services designed to meet various storage requirements, ranging from basic object storage to fully managed file systems, hybrid storage, and disaster recovery solutions. In this blog, we’ll explore key AWS services like AMI, S3, EBS, EFS, AWS Backup their purpose, use cases, and when to choose which. Let’s understand what is AMI. So, AMI Amazon Machine Image is an a pre-configured template used to create your EC2 instance. It contains the operating system, application server, and applications required to launch an instance. Instead of manually configuring each instance, you can use an AMI Amazon Machine Image to launch a server with all th…  ( 10 min )

The task is to compress repeating letters with count number given a string. The boilerplate code: function compress(str) { // your code here } If it's not a string, return "" if(!str) return ""; Start from the beginning of the string, and look at each character one by one. Keep a counter that tracks how many times the current character repeats consecutively. let result = ""; let count = 1; If the next character is the same as the current one, increase the counter for(let i=1; i 1) result += count count = 1; } The final code function compress(str) { // your code here if(!str) return ""; let result = ""; let count = 1; for(let i=1; i 1) result += count count = 1; } } return result; That's all folks!  ( 6 min )

Why I'm Done Building in Silence Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I'm a full-stack developer who's been building in the shadows for too long. Today that changes. For the past several months, I've been developing two products: CookTale 🍳 - A recipe discovery and sharing platform Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma Features: Recipe search, user-generated content, collections Status: ~80% complete, getting ready for beta Nutpost 📮 - A cross-platform social media scheduler Tech stack: Next.js, Node.js, MongoDB Multi-platform posting (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.) Status: MVP done, actively using it myself (including for this post!) I've been building both of these products in complete silence. No tweets, no updates, no community involvement. Classic developer move, right? But here's wha…  ( 7 min )

Smarter Detection, Human Clarity: This modular, AI-native ISR dashboard doesn’t just surface anomalies—it interprets them. By combining C++ sentiment parsing, environmental signal analysis, and OpenCV-powered anomaly detection across satellite and infrastructure data, it delivers real-time insights that feel intuitive, transparent, and actionable. Whether you’re monitoring defense operations or assessing critical infrastructure, the experience is designed to resonate with analysts and decision-makers alike. Under the hood, it’s powered by RS256-encrypted telemetry and scalable data pipelines. With sub-2-second latency, 99.9% dashboard uptime, and adaptive thresholds that recalibrate with operational volatility, it safeguards every decision while keeping the experience smooth and responsive. The dashboard integrates Matplotlib-driven 3D visualization layers to render terrain, vulnerabilities, and risk forecasts. Narrative overlays guide users through predictive graphs enriched with sentiment parsing, achieving a 35% drop in false positives, 50% faster triage, and 80% comprehension in stakeholder briefings. This isn’t just a detection engine—it’s a reimagined ISR experience. The concept behind this modular ISR prototype isn’t limited to military or security contexts. It’s designed to bring a human approach to strategic insight across industries — from climate resilience and infrastructure monitoring to civic tech and public safety. If the idea sparks something for you, I’d love to share more, and if you’re interested, you can even contribute to the prototype. https://ben854719.github.io/ Project: https://github.com/ben854719/Arctic-Sentinel-AI-Native-ISR-Dashboard/tree/main  ( 6 min )

As a developer and student, I’ve tried dozens of Pomodoro timers. They all had the same problem: Lack of motivation. Watching a countdown timer is boring. I wanted something that rewards consistency. So, I decided to build my own solution using React and a modern tech stack. Meet Tommodoro 🍅 The Tech & Features: State Management: Handling the timer logic, breaks, and active sessions seamlessly. Data Visualization: I built a custom dashboard with heatmaps and charts to track "Focus Hours" visually. Gamification Logic: I implemented a system where users earn Badges (like "Early Bird", "Night Owl") and compete on a Global Leaderboard. Localization: Currently supports 12 languages to help students worldwide. It's Free to Use You can try it here: Live Demo: Tommodoro.com Let me know if you have any feedback on the UI or the gamification system!  ( 6 min )

Understanding the Two Critical Roles in Kafka's Architecture The Big Picture In Kafka 4.0 (with KRaft), servers can perform two distinct roles: Role Analogy Primary Function Broker 📦 Library Shelf Manager Handles data storage and delivery Controller 🎮 Library Head Librarian Manages catalog and coordinates operations Quick Tip: Think of Kafka as a digital library system. Brokers are the staff who shelve and retrieve books, while Controllers are the head librarians who maintain the catalog and coordinate everything. Problem: Two separate systems to manage! ┌─────────────────────┐ │ ZooKeeper Cluster │ ← External dependency │ (The Brain 🧠) │ Must maintain separately │ │ Additional complexity └──────────┬──────────┘ │ …  ( 11 min )

AI agents represent a fundamental shift from traditional software systems. While conventional applications follow predictable code paths, AI agents exhibit autonomous behavior, multi-step reasoning, and non-deterministic outputs that make them inherently difficult to monitor and debug. As organizations deploy these systems at scale, observability has emerged as a critical capability for ensuring reliability, safety, and performance. According to Microsoft Azure research, AI agents are becoming central to enterprise workflows, yet their complexity introduces new dimensions that traditional observability approaches fail to capture. This comprehensive guide examines the essential components of AI agent observability and outlines proven best practices for implementing robust monitoring across …  ( 14 min )

Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Gemini CLI We've integrated Gemini 3 Pro, our most intelligent model, directly into Gemini CLI to unlock a new level of performance and productivity in the terminal. This powerful combination delivers state-of-the-art reasoning for executing better commands, enhances support for complex engineering work through agentic coding, and enables smarter, more tailored workflows via advanced tool use. We are rolling out access gradually to ensure the experience remains fast and reliable. Gemini 3 Pro is available starting now in Gemini CLI for Google AI Ultra subscribers and for those who have access via paid Gemini API key. For Gemini Code Assist Enterprise users, access is coming soon. All other users, including Google AI Pro, Gemini Code Assist Standard, and fre…  ( 11 min )

Hey, fellow devs. I'm a senior frontend engineer, deep in the Angular ecosystem for nearly a decade. I want to talk about the most insidious trap I see new developers fall into – one I definitely experienced myself. Tutorial Hell. You know the vibe. You've just crushed another excellent course. You've coded along, building a sleek app with a fantastic instructor. You feel that buzz of productivity, of learning. Then, the moment of truth. You try to kick off your own unique project. And... nothing. The editor is blank. Your mind is blank. You're paralyzed, unsure of the first line to write. That imposter feeling creeps in. You're not a fraud. You've simply become incredibly skilled at following instructions, but less practiced at pioneering solutions. Think of tutorials like a guided tour. You see all the sights, but you're not navigating. You're not making decisions. You're not getting lost and figuring out how to get back on track. Embrace the 'Micro-Project.' micro. A simple "Quote Generator." A "Color Picker." A "Character Counter." Something you can realistically start and finish in a single afternoon or evening. The goal is completion, not complexity. Outline in Human Language. // 1. User clicks a button // 2. Fetch a random quote from an API (or local array) // 3. Display the quote in a specific div // 4. Handle any errors during fetch You've just engineered your own step-by-step guide. Now, tackle each comment one at a time. Google for Specific Problems, Not Whole Solutions. * **🚫 AVOID:** "how to build a quote generator javascript" * **✅ FOCUS:** "javascript fetch api example" or "update div content js" This isn't about avoiding help; it's about shifting how you get help. The goal is to trade the passive comfort of watching for the active, often frustrating, experience of doing. Your brain will ache. This is a sign of real growth. You've got this. Close that video. Open your editor. Start building.  ( 7 min )

🤔 “Why does learning mobile app development feel way harder than building for the web?” Most beginners today jump into coding through web dev because it feels fast, visual, forgiving, and honestly… fun! But the moment they try building Android apps, the vibe suddenly changes: new languages, heavy setup, long builds, and tons of steps before even seeing a single button on screen. It just felt like something is unnecessarily complicated. Meanwhile, vibe-coding and AI tools have already opened the doors for normal people to build decent web apps - so we wondered: “Wait… what if making Android apps could be as simple as building a web app? What if it’s not ‘hard’, we’re just doing it the old way?” And like any good maker-brain moment, we didn’t think too much - we just tried building it. Dolphin (Open Source, Beta) A fun experimental side-project by me & Adhil Shan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhil-shan/) Dolphin is our small attempt to let people build Android apps using React + Vite while still accessing native features. Not claiming it’s perfect, not claiming it’s the future - just curious enough to try and … it works. 😅 It’s open source, still Beta, and honestly there’s a lot to figure out - but we thought it was cool enough to share now instead of “one day when it’s ready”. I am also working on a vibe-coding tool built on top of Dolphin so that anyone can build Android apps in a simple, straight-forward, “just type what you want” kind of way. More updates soon - this is just us having fun, building things we wish existed. If you wanna try, break, laugh, test, or contribute - the repo link is down below, give it a star⭐ to show support. GitHub Repo : https://github.com/adhilshan/dolphin #Dolphin #OpenSource #SideProject #HackItTillItWorks #FunProjects #React #Vite #AndroidDev #React #Android  ( 7 min )

As someone who manages large visual archives for business purposes, I’ve spent the past few months testing the leading photo organizing software with facial recognition. Below, I’ll share my first-hand impressions of the most notable tools in 2025 — what they do best, where they fall short, and which types of teams they suit. Once your photo library grows into tens of thousands of images, traditional folders and manual tags stop working. Facial recognition changes that completely. It automatically groups photos of the same person, speeds up search (to the point where you can type “Find all photos of Anna from 2023”), and minimizes the risk of mislabeling or lost assets. For modern teams, it’s not just about convenience — it’s about saving time, ensuring consistency, and keeping visual data…  ( 10 min )

Providing users with timely and meaningful feedback is essential for a usable digital experience. However, one of the most common UI patterns, toast notifications, often introduces serious accessibility barriers. Toasts tend to appear unpredictably, disappear too quickly, lack keyboard accessibility, and are rarely announced properly by assistive technologies. This article explores why toast notifications often fail to meet WCAG guidelines, and proposes accessible alternatives, complete with example code snippets. Toasts typically violate several WCAG 2.2 success criteria Non-interruptive timing issues: Toasts frequently appear for only a few seconds, preventing some users from perceiving them. Lack of screen reader announcement: Many toasts are not implemented as live regions, meaning as…  ( 7 min )

If you're knee-deep in code like me, you know the drill: every few months, a new AI model drops, and suddenly everyone's buzzing about how it'll "change everything." But let's be real – most of the time, it's hype with a side of incremental tweaks. Not this time. On November 18, 2025, Google unveiled Gemini 3, their most advanced AI yet, and it's not just another update. It's a full-on powerhouse that's topping benchmarks left and right, especially in areas devs care about most: reasoning, coding, and building real apps that actually work. I remember back in early 2024 when Gemini 1.0 launched – it was cool, sure, but it felt like Google playing catch-up to OpenAI's ChatGPT frenzy. Fast forward to now, and Gemini 3 Pro isn't just catching up; it's sprinting ahead. With state-of-the-art rea…  ( 12 min )

Upgrading your React-Native app from Android SDK 34 to 35 should be simple. Google releases a new SDK → you update compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion → rebuild → ship update. Right? Wrong. What I Upgraded compileSdkVersion = 34 -> // upgrade to 35 I also added this to styles.xml (required for Android 15 / API 35 edge-to-edge changes): true My project is on: The Nightmare Begins - AAPT2 Crash on Android 35 As soon as I attempted to build: Execution failed for task :app:processProdDebugResources This is a fatal AAPT2 crash that makes the entire build impossible. I tried following: ✔ Deleted Android 35 platform rm -rf ~/Library/Android/sdk/platforms/android-35 Nothing worked. Why? Because Android 35 ships a new resources…  ( 8 min )

Customer support is one of the most resource-heavy parts of any growing business. Tickets pile up. Response times slow down. Teams burn out. Customers churn. That’s why we built CoSupport AI — an all-in-one AI platform designed to automate, scale, and transform customer service with accuracy you can trust. 💡 What Is CoSupport AI? CoSupport AI is a fully customizable AI platform that helps businesses automate up to 90% of customer inquiries with 99% accuracy and zero hallucinations. It unites three powerful solutions: ✅ 1. AI Agent — Autonomous Support Automation A fully independent AI that: Resolves up to 90% of repetitive support tickets Works across chat, email, and social Understands product docs, FAQs, website content, and APIs Delivers brand-aligned answers with no hallucinations Per…  ( 8 min )

A major disruption hit the internet today as Cloudflare’s Global Network experienced issues, temporarily affecting millions of websites, APIs and CDN-backed services worldwide. At 13:09 UTC, Cloudflare officially posted: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” Because Cloudflare powers: 20%+ of the entire internet Major CDN layers DNS management Reverse proxy services API routing — even a short outage creates ripple effects across the digital ecosystem. ✔ What users experienced: Slow website loading DNS failure SSL handshake errors API timeouts Hosting disruptions ✔ Why this is important This outage highlights a deeper truth: The internet is not as decentralized as people think. As a Web Developer, I monitored the incident closely, and the impact reminded us of the need for: Redundant DNS providers Failover caching Multi-CDN setups Website uptime monitoring Cloudflare is rolling out the fix, and full stability is expected soon. Stay updated. Stay prepared. https://cryptowebbuild.com/  ( 6 min )

Mejora en PLD gracias a IA/ML: un micro-caso de éxito En el entorno financiero, la Prevención del Lavado de Dinero (PLD) es un enfoque fundamental para evitar la ocultación de bienes procedentes del delito y su utilización en la economía formal. En este sentido, la empresa TarantulaHawk.ai, una plataforma de inteligencia artificial para el cumplimiento normativo aplicado, ha destacado por su capacidad para mejorar la eficacia de la PLD. Un caso hipotético Una entidad financiera establecida en el estado de Nuevo León, con presencia en el país y en el exterior, utiliza la plataforma de PLD de TarantulaHawk.ai. Su objetivo principal es reducir los falsos positivos al realizar la debida diligencia y perfilamiento de sus clientes y sus clientes finales. Al implementar la herramienta de IA/ML, l…  ( 7 min )

Five months of obsessive coding just for this... Unknownerror-404 ・ Nov 17 #rasa #ai #devjournal #python  ( 6 min )

KubeCon North America 2025 was actually two different events happening simultaneously in the same building. The first KubeCon lived on the exhibit floor. Every third booth featured some variation of "AI Agent" in the marketing. Autonomous operations. Self-healing infrastructure. Intelligent orchestration. The demos were slick. The pitch decks promised transformation. NVIDIA showcased Agent Blueprints. Google announced Agent-to-Agent protocols on GKE. Vendors competed to out-automate each other. The second KubeCon happened in hallways, coffee lines, and after-hours conversations. This is where I spent most of my time. And not a single conversation was about AI agents. Instead, many of the folks I talked to asked questions like: The Numbers That Don't Make Headlines global AI agent market is…  ( 11 min )

When copying and pasting in most applications, the default behavior is to paste not only the content from one document into another, but also the styling. Font, color, text size, etc. will not match the target document. This is almost never the outcome I want. Many applications have an option called 'Paste and Match Style', which does properly adopt the styling of the target document. But I find this option frustrating because I prefer keyboard shortcuts to menu clicks, and I can never remember the hotkey. It's long, and turns my hand into a pretzel. On Mac, the 'Paste' hotkey is simply Command-V (⌘-V). Option-Shift-Command-V (⌥-⇧-⌘-V). 😣 You can see these settings in the edit menu of many applications: Here's how to swap the two hotkeys, so Command-V will paste and match style, while also leaving normal 'Paste' in your menu (or available for finger contortions), if you ever need it: Open System Settings and search for Keyboard In the Keyboard settings click Keyboard Shortcuts Select App Shortcuts Click the + button Leave All Applications selected For the Menu Title enter Paste and Match Style. Spelling, spacing, and capitalization are important, because the name must match the default application menu item name. For Keyboard Shortcut press Command-V (⌘-V) on your keyboard. Click Done Repeat the process for Paste with the shortcut Option-Shift-Command-V (⌥-⇧-⌘-V). Done! Now, in most Mac applications, Command-V will paste and match the style of your target document. Here's a typical Edit menu, after the changes we made: Was this helpful? Did I save you some time? 🫖 Buy Me A Tea! ☕️  ( 6 min )

How Rococo Supercharged My Banking API: Immutability, Time-Travel Debugging & Event-Driven Workflows When I started building a small banking API for learning purposes, I expected the hardest parts to be the API endpoints or the money transfer logic. I was wrong. The real challenge was data correctness over time. If a customer deposits money, withdraws money, initiates a dispute, or reports that something went wrong earlier in the month, traditional CRUD becomes the enemy: Updates erase history Deletes destroy audit trails Logs can’t rebuild financial state In financial systems, data is not just data — it’s truth. This is where Rococo, a Python versioning + event-sourcing framework, completely changed the game for me. Imagine a basic workflow: Start balance: $0 Deposit $100 → balan…  ( 8 min )

Mito/Realidad Mito: Los sujetos obligados por la LFPIORPI solo deben verificar la identidad de sus clientes y realizar un análisis de riesgo básico para cumplir con las obligaciones de prevención del lavado de dinero (PLD) en México. Realidad: Los sujetos obligados por la LFPIORPI deben realizar una evaluación de los riesgos de lavado de dinero y financiación del terrorismo (FT), que incluye la identificación y la evaluación de los riesgos de cada cliente, transacción o operación, y aplicar medidas de prevención adecuadas en función de los niveles de riesgo identificados. La Ley Federal de Prevención e Identificación de Operaciones con Recursos de Procedencia Ilícita establece que los sujetos obligados deben adoptar medidas de prevención que incluyan, entre otras cosas: la identificación d…  ( 7 min )

Today we are introducing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model that can help bring any idea to life. Built on a foundation of state-of-the-art reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro delivers unparalleled results across every major AI benchmark compared to previous versions. It also surpasses 2.5 Pro at coding, mastering both agentic workflows and complex zero-shot tasks. Gemini 3 Pro fits right into existing production agent and coding workflows, while also enabling new use cases not previously possible. It’s available in preview at $2/million input tokens and $12/million output tokens for prompts 200k tokens or less through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI for enterprises (see pricing for rate limits and full pricing details). Additionally, it can be utilized via your favorite developer …  ( 17 min )

Here's what's happening right now in marketing departments everywhere: someone's building a 2026 budget in a spreadsheet, copying last year's numbers, adjusting for inflation, and calling it "data-driven." I get it. Budget planning season feels like being asked to predict the weather 14 months from now. But here's the thing—you don't need perfect foresight. You need a framework that adapts when (not if) things change. After watching companies waste six figures on "strategic initiatives" that die by February, I've learned that Q1 budget allocation isn't about spreading money evenly across channels. It's about strategic bets backed by actual performance data, not wishful thinking. Forget the vanity metrics for a minute. Go into your analytics and pull revenue attribution by channel for the p…  ( 11 min )

10 Developer Habits That Separate Good Programmers From Great Ones There's a moment in every developer's career when they realize that writing code that works isn't enough. It happens differently for everyone. Maybe you're staring at a pull request you submitted six months ago, horrified by the decisions your past self made. Maybe you're debugging a production issue at 2 AM, surrounded by energy drink cans, wondering how something so simple could have gone so catastrophically wrong. Or maybe you're pair programming with someone who makes everything look effortless—solving in minutes what would have taken you hours—and you're left wondering what separates you from them. I've been writing code professionally for over a decade, and I can tell you with certainty: the difference between good …  ( 45 min )

Weird Science Gets the Rewatchables Treatment Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive headfirst into John Hughes’s 1985 cult classic Weird Science, unpacking all the teen mayhem—sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll and high-tech hijinks—with Anthony Michael Hall’s lovable geeks and Kelly LeBrock’s iconic creation. They riff on Hughes’s signature blend of wit, whimsy and ’80s excess that turned a wild premise into a pop-culture staple. This episode of The Ringer’s Rewatchables, produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, is your backstage pass to movie nostalgia. Catch it on The Ringer-Verse and Bill Simmons’s YouTube channels, and head to theringer.com for even more deep dives. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With The Wiz in 15 Minutes (Or Less) CinemaSins is back down the yellow brick road, taking rapid-fire jabs at the 1978 musical The Wiz now that Wicked’s storming back into theaters. Expect their trademark nitpicks on plot holes, character quirks, catchy-but-questionable song moments, and all those little details you never noticed (or maybe wish you hadn’t). They’re also plugging their site, socials, a “sinful” poll, and a Patreon pop-quiz, plus giving shout-outs to the writers and wider CinemaSins crew. If you love a good roast with your pop culture deep dives, you know where to find ‘em. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Imagine joining a team meeting but having no idea who’s speaking. Or trying to follow a busy chat thread, only for your screen reader to miss half the messages. For the 1.3 billion people living with disabilities, this is a daily experience with most communication tools. Real-time apps like chat and video platforms often overlook accessibility, leading to issues such as: Dynamic updates that screen readers can’t keep up with Visual-only indicators like reactions or hand raises Audio-only conversations that exclude deaf or hard-of-hearing users Building accessible real-time apps means designing for everyone, not just those who can see, hear, or interact in typical ways. In this article, we'll build a production-ready chat and video application that's fully accessible: Real-time video conf…  ( 27 min )

XRP has always been at the heart of how value moves on the network. It was designed to solve something more fundamental — how money and liquidity move across the global financial system. Over the years, XRP’s role has expanded from powering payments to providing liquidity, settling tokenized assets, and enabling real-time movement of value across markets. It’s now positioned to play a central role as institutional markets evolve, from digitally asset-backed Treasury securities (DATS) to digital exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Last week marks another milestone with the launch of the first XRP ETF from Canary, a sign of how XRP’s use cases continue to expand while staying true to its original purpose. All of this is built on XRP’s reliable and decentralized foundation, trusted for more than a …  ( 8 min )

I’ve been developing with Next.js for a while now, and with every major release, we get introduced to new features that make our workflow even better. However, there’s one feature I believe many developers overlook. I rarely see it used in codebases I work on, and I honestly wonder why. Is it because they don’t know it exists? Or they’re not sure how it actually works? So in today’s article, I’m going to introduce you to a Next.js feature called Route Groups. Once you understand this, you’ll be ahead of many Next.js developers. I’m not going to give you a textbook definition. Instead, I'll show you how they work and why they matter. Let’s say your design team delivers 4 sets of designs for your company's MVP: Website – marketing and legal pages Authentication – sign in, sign up, forgot pas…  ( 7 min )

Introduction In my React template, I mentioned that Tanstack Query is one of my core libraries for handling HTTP requests and caching. In this post, I'll dive deeper into how I use it and why it's become an essential part of my development workflow. Fetching data is a crucial part of any frontend application. I can't remember building a web app that didn't need to fetch and display data from the server. I've tried GraphQL with Apollo and SWR, but nothing felt quite right until I discovered Tanstack Query. Before that, like most developers, I used React state (or Redux and other libraries) to handle server state. Below is a simple example of fetching data using the fetch API and useEffect. When the page renders for the first time, we fire a request, and when we get the data, we update the…  ( 8 min )

Have you ever wanted to get your hands dirty with NoSQL but didn't want to deal with the hassle of local installations, environment variables, or npm errors? In this guide, we'll go from zero to a fully functional database in minutes using MongoDB Atlas. We'll create a cluster, insert data, and perform advanced queries—all within your web browser. What we will cover: Setting up a free Cloud Cluster Creating a Database & Collection Inserting Dummy Data (JSON) Running Aggregation Pipelines Filtering with Regex (Pattern Matching) Updating and Deleting documents Let's dive in! 🚀 1. Create a Free MongoDB Atlas Cluster First, we need a server. Luckily, MongoDB provides a "forever free" tier. Navigate to cloud.mongodb.com Sign up (or sign in using Google/GitHub) Click + Create (or Build a Clu…  ( 9 min )

(Part 1) At the time of my last update, the company had 116 people. Now we are over 300. The Go-to-Market organization is now larger than Engineering. Some studies claim that our ancestors couldn’t handle tribes of over about 150 people. We are definitely past the point when one could know every employee. The loss of intimacy is offset by the feeling that we now have resources — a growing number of teams focusing on different areas while collaborating on cross-group efforts. With such growth, we are doubling down on our efforts to foster and reemphasize consistency in our hiring practices, decision-making, behavioral patterns, and rules of engagement, otherwise referred to as values and culture. In my previous life within a huge corporation, those things generally made sense to me, but the…  ( 11 min )

I spend a significant amount of time explaining the same context to different AI assistants. Not because the AIs are inadequate—Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor are powerful tools. The issue is that I use them for different tasks, and each time I switch tools, the context is lost. Here's what my workflow looked like: ChatGPT - Research and brainstorming: I spent an hour discussing MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementation details with ChatGPT—digging into OAuth flows, resource metadata endpoints, authentication patterns. Through back-and-forth discussion, I clarified edge cases, understood the nuances, and arrived at implementation decisions. Claude Code - Implementation: Now I want to start coding. But Claude Code doesn't know any of the context from that ChatGPT session. To implement…  ( 9 min )

Modern web apps are fast—until they aren’t. As frontend frameworks grow more complex and hydration becomes more expensive, we’re hitting performance ceilings. Lighthouse scores drop, JavaScript bundles grow, and users—especially on low-end devices—suffer. That’s why a new pattern is getting massive traction in 2025: 👉 Islands Architecture It brings together the best of SSR, SPA interactivity, and static rendering into one performance-first approach. In this blog, you’ll learn: What Islands Architecture is (in simple words) Why traditional hydration is slow How islands solve performance problems Which frameworks use it Whether you should adopt it in your next project 🧩 What Is “Islands Architecture”? Islands Architecture is a frontend design pattern where a webpage is…  ( 8 min )

The Hard Truth About Learning Spring Boot (And How to Actually Master It) Everyone says learning Spring Boot is “easy” if you know Java. They talk about “building REST APIs,” “connecting to a database,” and “deploying microservices.” But here’s the hard truth: Most days, it’s confusing, frustrating, and full of small errors you can’t figure out. And that’s completely normal. Learning Spring Boot isn’t just about memorizing annotations or following tutorials. It’s about understanding how the pieces fit together, and learning by building and breaking things. Before diving into Spring Boot, make sure you’re comfortable with: OOP concepts (classes, inheritance, interfaces) Collections, Streams, and Lambdas Exception handling and debugging Spring Boot builds on these fundamentals,…  ( 7 min )

Inside Amazon EKS: Understanding Its Core Architecture On-cloud7 ・ Nov 18 #aws #eks #cloudcomputing #docker  ( 5 min )

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has become a popular option for running containerized applications at scale. Before deploying workloads or setting up CI/CD pipelines, it’s crucial to understand how EKS is structured internally. This blog will guide you through the core architecture of Amazon EKS, discussing the control plane, worker nodes, networking, IAM roles, and the CNI plugin that facilitates pod communication. ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐ 📌 What is Amazon EKS? Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the setup and management of Kubernetes control-plane components. AWS takes care of cluster reliability, scalability, and updates, allowing you to concentrate on running applications instead of maintaining control-…  ( 9 min )

This blog is the second part of my blog series named Hackathon Arc. Make sure to read the first part Phase Of Uncertainty. So the bell rang for the hackathon at our home soil. Now I had to do that frustrating part again, assembling the team. I already had Godabaris and Anuska from my previous hackathons. As the member limit for this hackathon was 6, I had to find another three, so I looked at my batchmates and picked those two who looked remotely interested in development. Then I also take the bet on a junior. First of my friends who was coming to my team is Rakesh, at that he was LeetCode god of our campus(well he still is...), but he will be known for different things in the future. So now we have to register our team and for that we have to get a team name. Rakesh came with the name Ya…  ( 11 min )

Utilizar ia para criar música eletrônica grátis se tornou uma das maneiras mais simples e acessíveis de começar a produzir faixas eletrônicas. Já no primeiro contato, fica claro como a inteligência artificial remove barreiras técnicas e dá liberdade criativa para quem deseja explorar sons, ritmos e atmosferas sem precisar investir em softwares pagos. As plataformas atuais conseguem gerar melodias, percussões, harmonia, timbres e até efeitos completos, permitindo que qualquer pessoa transforme uma ideia inicial em música de verdade. A inteligência artificial analisa padrões musicais, identifica características de estilos eletrônicos e aprende como produtores constroem suas faixas. Dessa forma, ela consegue sugerir elementos coerentes com gêneros como house, techno, EDM, dubstep ou trance, t…  ( 8 min )

Table of Contents The Risk of Standing Permissions and the Principle of Just-Enough Access (JEA) Foundation for JEA: Automated Data Discovery and Classification Applying Tag-Based Access Control with IAM Conditions Applying Column-Level Controls with Dynamic Data Masking Automating JIT Approvals for Operational Efficiency Securing Machine Identities with Just-in-Time Access Balancing Security and Utility: A Modern Data Governance Strategy Recently, I encountered a question that illustrates the fundamental trade-off between security and utility inherent in most system designs. As data has become a critical and integrated part of business operations, a robust data platform is designed to ensure reliability, accuracy, and effective data governance. This immediately raises a critical que…  ( 11 min )

Identity is at the center of almost every cyberattack today. Why Traditional Security Misses Identity-Based Attacks Most organizations have strong endpoint tools, network firewalls, and SIEM solutions. A stolen session token A compromised admin account A misconfigured SaaS app A shared credential A bypassed MFA flow And with that, they walk through the front door often undetected. What Exactly Is ITDR? Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) is a modern security discipline focused on detecting, investigating, and responding to threats that involve identity systems like IAM, SSO, and SaaS applications. Monitoring authentication behavior Detecting anomalous logins Tracking privilege escalation events Monitoring access policy changes Correlating identity events across apps Responding to c…  ( 8 min )

The Problem That Keeps Medical Coders Up at Night Imagine you're processing disability claims for veterans. Each claim contains dense medical documentation—thousands of characters describing symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment history. Your job? Extract the correct ICD-10 diagnostic codes from this narrative. Miss a code, and a veteran might not receive the benefits they've earned. Add an incorrect code, and you've created compliance issues. Now imagine doing this hundreds of times per day, under pressure, with 158+ possible diagnosis codes to remember. This is exactly the type of problem that makes medical coding both critically important and incredibly challenging. And it's the perfect use case for Natural Language Processing (NLP). But here's the catch: training an AI to do this isn't …  ( 14 min )

When building forms in HTML, the element is one of the most important building blocks. HTML5 introduced many useful input types that help improve user experience, validation, and accessibility. In this article, you’ll learn every input type in HTML, along with simple descriptions and examples you can copy-paste into your projects. 🔤 1. Text-Based Input Types 1. text — Single line text 2. password — Hides characters 3. email — Validates email format 4. number — Numeric input with min/max 5. tel — For phone numbers 6. url — URL input with validation <i…  ( 7 min )

You're building a chat room. Or a notification system. Or anything that needs to broadcast messages to multiple subscribers. Five minutes in, you're already knee-deep in managing collections of actor references, handling subscription lifecycles, and wondering why this simple concept requires so much plumbing. The publish-subscribe pattern solves this elegantly—when it's done right. But implementing distributed pub/sub from scratch means dealing with cluster coordination, message routing, and subscriber cleanup. Not exactly a fun afternoon. This is why spring-boot-starter-actor includes a topic feature that gives you distributed pub/sub with three lines of code. Here's the manual approach most people start with: @Component public class ChatRoomActor { private final Set…  ( 9 min )

The field of web development is huge. Everyone in it knows that. A lot happens in our field, too. Web development is a field of constant change. You can literally watch the web platform grow. In this vast sea of change, we change, too. We acquire new knowledge, we adapt to evolving practices, we gain more experience. As actors in the field, we all have a sense for the size and output of and our growth within the field. You don’t need me to tell where you stand in relation to it. However, in my work I’m very close to some of the indicators of just how big the field is, how much it puts out, and how we change as part of it. The Web Development Glossary—fundamentally a book, but also a website—is the largest collection of terms and concepts related to our field. The upcoming new edition of th…  ( 7 min )

As people continue to upgrade to smarter and faster devices, many choose to Sell Phone models they no longer use to make room for better technology. With rapid innovation shaping daily digital habits, knowing how to navigate advanced tools can greatly improve convenience, productivity, and overall device performance. Software updates introduce new features, fix vulnerabilities, and enhance system stability. Enabling automatic updates for apps and operating systems ensures your device is always running at its best without needing constant manual checks. Advanced technology also means advanced threats. Using a VPN on public Wi-Fi networks, activating two-factor authentication, and reviewing app permissions regularly can prevent unauthorized access and safeguard sensitive data. Most modern de…  ( 7 min )

Here's something that'll mess with your head: 95% of purchasing decisions happen subconsciously. Your customers think they're being rational, weighing features and benefits like good little economists. They're not. They're making gut-level decisions based on psychological triggers that have been hardwired into human brains for thousands of years, then reverse-engineering logical justifications afterward. And if you're still writing product descriptions like you're filling out a spec sheet, you're missing the entire game. I've spent the better part of a decade watching companies throw money at marketing campaigns that ignore basic human psychology, then act surprised when their "objectively superior product" loses to a competitor with worse features and better storytelling. The thing is, ma…  ( 13 min )

When I first dipped my toes into the world of algorithmic trading, I was overwhelmed by complex jargon, endless code, and the sheer number of platforms out there. I wanted to automate my investing and test real trading ideas-but I didn’t want a computer science degree to get started. That kicked off my quest to find platforms that actually make algorithmic trading accessible for beginners like me. Note: This piece was written with artificial intelligence support and may reference projects I'm affiliated with. So I spent the last few months testing a stack of platforms hands-on, with a single goal: find the ones that truly take the pain and confusion out of automated trading for newcomers. Some of these tools impressed me with their simplicity. Others stood out for making strategy creation…  ( 13 min )

title: Solving the 'resource_func' Mystery: How I Made Ballerina's Compiler More User-Friendly When developers encounter compiler errors, clear and actionable error messages can mean the difference between quick resolution and hours of frustration. This is the story of how I improved the Ballerina compiler's error messaging system to provide better developer experience. While exploring the Ballerina programming language, I encountered issue #43815 in the Ballerina GitHub repository. Developers were reporting a confusing compiler error that displayed: error: this resource_func must return a result The issue? resource_func isn't valid Ballerina syntax. The correct syntax uses two separate words: resource function. This seemingly minor discrepancy was causing significant confusion among deve…  ( 9 min )

The crypto market has weathered many storms, but October 10, 2025 stands out as the most severe and rapid liquidation event in recorded history. Market data shows that the flash crash triggered unprecedented liquidation volumes across the crypto space. Within hours, cascading liquidations swept through leveraged positions as prices plummeted faster than many protective mechanisms could react. For Curve Finance and its lending ecosystem, this became the ultimate trial, putting its architecture and risk control mechanisms to the test. Under extreme market pressure, Curve’s infrastructure held firm — the impact from the washout was significant but manageable. A total of $30.34 million in debt positions were liquidated across 118 positions on both Mint Markets and LlamaLend. By comparison, ou…  ( 9 min )

Cloudflare Outage & 5xx Spikes: Should Website Owners Worry About SEO? When Cloudflare goes down, half the internet feels it. And on the day the recent outage hit, a lot of website owners suddenly found themselves staring at one scary thing inside their logs and dashboards: 5xx errors. If you run an online business, manage SEO, or work with marketing data daily, that spike of server-errors can feel like a punch in the stomach. You expect bad impacts — rankings dropping, crawling issues, traffic disappearing. But here's the real story, explained in simple words and from a practical standpoint. Cloudflare is used by millions of websites as a protective and performance layer. When it fails, your site may be perfectly fine — but the world still sees an error page. During the outage, many do…  ( 7 min )

Hello Dev.to community! My name is EmberNoGlow, and I'm thrilled to introduce my tool for Godot 4: the Procedural Terrain Generator. This generator allows you to easily create procedural landscapes using MeshInstance3D and heightmaps. What's especially cool is that generation is available both directly in the editor and during runtime! In game development, the need to create large and unique game worlds is common. Manually crafting every hill, valley, or mountain can be incredibly time-consuming. Procedural generation is the key to: Saving Time: Quickly generate detailed landscapes. Uniqueness: Each generated landscape can be one-of-a-kind. Scalability: Easily build expansive open worlds. Dynamism: The ability to modify terrain in real-time. My generator is designed to simplify thi…  ( 7 min )

Discover how to deploy your portfolio website using Amazon S3 static hosting — starting simple as a beginner, then scaling into a production-grade solution that can even support dynamic features as you grow. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a scalable object storage service that allows you to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web. Think of it like Google Drive or Dropbox, but programmable and highly scalable — perfect for hosting your portfolio website. Durability: 99.999999999% (yes, eleven 9s!) designed to protect against data loss across multiple facilities Availability: 99.99% uptime ensures your portfolio is always online when opportunities knock Scalability: Store virtually unlimited data without worrying about capacity limits Use Cases: Website hosting, backups, app…  ( 9 min )

For most of my work, I worked almost entirely on Linux servers. Like many of us, even though everyone starts using Windows first in their life, 95% of real production workloads today run on Linux. And that small requirement turned into a very interesting journey. Simple question, right? I thought: “Okay, in Linux I just create a systemd service, set ExecStart, enable the service, and I’m done.” But Windows? That’s when everything became a learning curve. Windows uses something called the Windows Service Manager. .exe or scripts wrapped using service wrappers. To run Python/Flask as a Windows service, I had to understand: The Windows Service Control Manager How services are registered How they start/stop Event logs instead of journalctl How Python needs a wrapper to run as a service How to …  ( 8 min )

The Power of kubectl Plugins and Fixing Common Errors. Learn kubectl plugins use cases, how they work, alternatives, and troubleshooting errors like ‘unknown command’.” As a Kubernetes user, have you ever wished your kubectl could do more? Or hit an error like “error: unknown command ‘oidc-login’ for ‘kubectl’”?  In this Medium story, we’ll break down why plugins are game-changers, how they work, when to (or not to) use them, and alternatives, plus a real fix on Ubuntu 24.04 with Amazon EKS. What Are kubectl Plugins?  kubectl plugins are CLI extensions that boost the standard kubectl tool with extra features. They’re lightweight, task-focused utilities that blend seamlessly into your Kubernetes routine. They add new commands without touching the core tool. Basics: Plugins are standalo…  ( 8 min )

The command line is where real productivity happens. It's fast, scriptable, and distraction-free. Over time, I’ve tested numerous tools and utilities to enhance my terminal workflow, making it smoother, smarter, and more efficient. In this post, I’ll share the most useful CLI tools I rely on every day. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, or just someone who loves optimizing their setup, these tools will help you work faster and enjoy a cleaner, more powerful terminal experience. Neovim + NvChad Neovim is my daily driver for editing code and configuration files. Combined with NvChad, it becomes a fast, modern IDE with smart defaults, LSP support, treesitter syntax highlighting, and a beautiful UI. I love how customizable it is. I can tweak everything from keybindings to themes, mak…  ( 8 min )

Threat modeling, penetration testing, and security design all share thinking like an adversary. But adversarial This is my preferred method: always work backward from the objective. Here’s a structured adversarial thinking template you can use across domains—security, debugging, marketing, design, even recipes. It’s built around my preferred method: always work backward from the goal/objective. What is the attacker’s (or evaluator’s) end state? (e.g., data theft, privilege escalation, flawless flan, successful campaign) What must be true for this outcome to exist? (e.g., credentials compromised, custard set, audience converted) What signals confirm success? (e.g., exfiltrated data, jiggle test, conversion metrics) Affordances: What the system naturally makes easy? Constraints: What …  ( 7 min )

When putting together RestlessIDE (the soon-to-be best web-based development environment!) I had a lot of different thoughts floating around in my head. I have been a huge fan of web-based development for a long time. Back in the 2016-2017 timeframe I used an Acer Chromebox as my main dev setup, with Cloud9 IDE being my daily driver. It had its quirks but was generally a solid experience. Then Amazon bought and killed it for some reason. I then tried switching to one of its competitors (they’re still around, so I won’t name names. YET!) and the experience was more mixed. The editor itself was mostly fine, but the terminals tended to lose connectivity regularly; you’d see text but couldn’t type, and would need to reload the page and hope it worked out. Things generally felt just a little bi…  ( 13 min )

The frustrating pattern of excellent sub-frontier parameter AI models from GDPR-aligned regions undermined by poor API implementation… The AI industry has convinced itself that capability scales linearly with parameters. Bigger models, more compute, higher costs, mounting environmental impact. But what if the bottleneck isn't model scale… it's architectural coordination? This is the engineering approach I'm working to validate with Crafted Logic Lab as we barrel toward release products. Sub-frontier models from GDPR-aligned regions offer compelling advantages: reduced operational costs, lower environmental footprint, and distance from Silicon Valley's pure capital extraction, hyperscale-obsessed paradigm. We're building cognitive architecture systems (Cognitive Agent Framework™ and Intel…  ( 16 min )

Motivation Many real world applications such as machine learning, scientific computing, data compression, computer graphics and video processing require linear algebra operations. Tensors (mostly vectors, which are 1-dimensional tensors, and matrices, which are 2-dimensional tensors) are the primary data structures used to represent data in these applications. Writing software is hard. Writing correct, performant, secure, reliable, etc., software is even harder. This is why most linear algebra operations are expressed in terms of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). Common BLAS routines are vector addition, scalar multiplication, dot products, linear combinations, matrix-vector multiplication, and matrix-matrix multiplication. Similarly to the saying "Don't roll your own cryptography…  ( 14 min )

Why We Needed End-to-End CI Tests For a long time, our team relied on unit tests and a handful of manual checks to validate frontend changes. It felt “good enough” until reality proved otherwise. We were regularly delivering new features without any guarantee that the UI wouldn’t break elsewhere. First of all, unit tests only covered logic, not real user interactions. They didn’t click buttons, fill forms, navigate pages, or handle permission side. Secondly, manual testing wasn’t good either: slow, repetitive, incomplete, and easily skipped. And then a critical bug hit production. The backend CI was green and the deployment went out smoothly, but users immediately faced broken UI behavior. That incident made it clear: our CI pipeline was blind to the frontend. We needed a way to test th…  ( 9 min )

Hello everybody! Welcome to my first article on dev.to. I'm excited to explore a powerful combination: what happens when we use Rust and Python together? We all love Python. We love its simple syntax, its vast ecosystem of libraries (from data science to web development), and how quickly we can get ideas from our brains into code. But... Let's be honest. When you hit a real performance bottleneck—a complex calculation, a massive loop, or any heavy CPU-bound task—that love can turn to frustration. We've all seen our Python code crawl, often hindered by the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) or its interpreted nature. This is where Rust comes in. Rust is a modern systems language built for performance. It offers C++ levels of speed but with compile-time memory safety guarantees. This means no gar…  ( 9 min )

Technological transformation has become an important core of the modern business. Companies are changing with it. They have started to include advanced features and operations in their workflow. Businesses store data online and manage customer interactions with digital systems. Automating the everyday tedious tasks. But, in this, security becomes a major concern. Any weak point could lead to data leaks or hacks. To avoid this, hiring the best blockchain developers helps with reliable solutions. Let's see how blockchain development could help businesses protect their data. Blockchain is well known for its ability to protect data. It records information in a distributed network. No single person or computer controls it. This reduces the chances of data tampering. Blockchain also creates a cl…  ( 8 min )

In July 2024, we launched a Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) on HackerOne. Customers and researchers were already reporting bugs informally. So, we needed a proper channel. So we set it up. First as a private program, then public. Over a year: 200 reports → 11 valid → 0 critical And yet, it was worth it. We fixed minor, mostly theoretical issues, making our systems more predictable and processes sharper. Reports stopped landing in the support chat and were directed through a single channel, providing developers with the right context from day one. HackerOne’s Triage was essential: most reports were low-effort or AI-generated. Without it, we’d have wasted time on noise. We didn’t find any serious vulnerabilities.  After the launch spike, reports slowed to 1–3 shallow, tool-based ones …  ( 7 min )

OWASP Cornucopia 3.0 - A call for card game designers! Johan Sydseter for OWASP® Foundation ・ Nov 13 #gamedev #security #design #webdev  ( 6 min )

Master 80% of Notion with this ONE Feature Ever locked into scattered Notion pages? The Relations feature is your secret sauce—link tasks, notes, and projects so only what matters pops up, letting you whip up a killer command center in minutes. This video shows why most setups fall flat, how to connect databases using Relations, and how to build self-filtering templates (manual and automated) with a ready-to-duplicate example. Bonus: grab the free Notion template, deep-dive courses, and all the extra resources to level up your workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Context,Limit Applied To,Value,Notes "SQL*Plus, JDBC, ODBC, .NET, etc.",One complete SQL or PL/SQL statement sent from the client,"32,767 bytes","Hard limit in older Oracle client libraries (OCI7, OCI8)" VARCHAR2 in SQL,Maximum size you can declare in SQL,"32,767 bytes (in SQL scope)",Because of the above client limit PL/SQL VARCHAR2,Maximum size in PL/SQL code,"32,767 bytes",Same root cause Extended data types disabled,"VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, RAW in table columns","4,000 bytes",Old pre-12c limit Extended data types enabled,"VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, RAW in table columns","32,767 bytes",Requires MAX_STRING_SIZE = EXTENDED (Oracle 12c+)  ( 6 min )

We’ve upgraded our models. Most teams are still trying to squeeze agentic behavior into button - click, form-based flows. It “works” for a demo, but it fights how agents actually operate: over context, state, and continuous interaction. We’re running a free live session on exactly this: https://luma.com/cgvudw30 🧠 What we’ll cover What Agentic UX actually means beyond “just add a chat box” Designing for continuous collaboration, not isolated commands How agents should expose state, reasoning, and decisions to users Why static UI patterns break when agents take initiative A look at AG-UI, an open protocol for agent–UI interaction 👥 Who this is for Developers building AI-powered products Teams embedding agents into existing workflows Anyone tired of forcing intelligent systems into old-school UIs 📅 Date: November 20 https://luma.com/cgvudw30  ( 6 min )

What is Git? Linus Torvalds in 2005 for developing the linux kernel.It will record the commits of your projects so that you can go back to earlier version if needed,and you can also see who made what changes and when did the changes happened. Distributed Version Control System(DVCS): Example: Architect gives every engineer a full copy of the blueprint and ask them to make changes on their own and submit it to him.Finally the team lead compares every copy ,merge them and chooses the final version. What is Gitlab? Difference between Git and Gitlab - Git is a distributed version control system used to track changes in code and manage different versions of a project on a developer's local machine.It helps developer's commit,branch, and merge their code efficiently. - On the other hand,Gitlab is a web-based platform that provides repository hosting along with features like CI/CD pipelines,issue tracking,merge requests,code reviews and project management tools. While Git is only the version control tool,Gitlab is a complete devops platform that helps teams collaborate ,automate builds,and deploy applications.  ( 6 min )

Most of us have utilised LLMs like GPT-4 or Claude to accelerate coding, write documentation, or explain complex concepts. But those are still one-off prompts. You ask, it answers. That’s it. AI agents go a step further. They can take actions, follow logic, call APIs, and complete tasks end-to-end. Instead of just helping you think, they can do the work beyond the chatbox. We have previously talked at length about what an AI agent is. In this post, we’re examining tools that simplify the process of building these agents, eliminating the need to stitch together scripts or manage infrastructure from scratch. In this post, I’ve rounded up the 7 most useful low-code AI agent builders for developers who want to build, test, and run AI agents fast. Some are built for workflows, some for coding t…  ( 13 min )

Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt are back with a new Ringer Movies Rewatchables episode, diving into John Hughes’s 1985 classic Weird Science. Expect their trademark mix of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll and plenty of offbeat gadgetry as they break down Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith’s sci-fi teen caper. Produced by Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo, this installment is brought to you with a shout-out to State Farm’s Personal Price Plan®—and of course, a reminder to subscribe to The Ringer channels for more deep dives, hot takes and movie nostalgia. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Agent's Brain — Defining Logic and Reasoning with Strands Agents 2.1 Introduction: The "Blueprint" vs. the "Factory" In Part 1, we established a secure "front door." A user can now authenticate and send a prompt to a secure API endpoint. The next question is: what handles that prompt? This brings us to the most confusing—and most important—distinction in this modern AWS stack: the difference between Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. To clarify this, one can use an analogy of building a sophisticated robot: Strands Agents (SDK): This is the "Blueprint." It is an open-source Python framework that a developer uses to define the robot's logic. This is the code for its "brain" (how it reasons), its "memory" (how it remembers), and the "tools" it can use (its "hands"). Strands …  ( 9 min )

A few years ago, building an app felt more like you were climbing a mountain because you needed to know how to code, understand databases, set up servers, and even wrestle with deployment tools. But things seem to have changed. Let's say you're a fashion store owner and you have an idea for an app that could let your customers browse outfits and place orders directly from their phones, and obviously, you don’t know how to code. In fact, you've never written a single line of JavaScript. But still, you opened a Glide, a no-code platform, connected your Google Sheet, and within hours, your app was live. No complex syntax. No developer needed. A few years ago, that would’ve sounded impossible. But today, it’s now a movement. No-code platforms are platforms that let you build apps without writi…  ( 9 min )

Анонимность onion-сервисов: почему нельзя определить IP-адрес и как устроена распределенная сеть Tor defX ・ Nov 11 #cybersecurity #networking #privacy  ( 5 min )

1️⃣ CREATE TABLE – Used to create a new table in the database. CREATE TABLE Students ( ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Name VARCHAR(50), Age INT, Grade VARCHAR(10) ); 2️⃣ ALTER TABLE – Used to modify an existing table structure. ➤ Add a new column ALTER TABLE Students ADD Email VARCHAR(100); ➤ Rename a column (syntax may vary by SQL version) ALTER TABLE Students RENAME COLUMN Name TO FullName; ➤ Change data type ALTER TABLE Students MODIFY Age SMALLINT; ➤ Drop a column ALTER TABLE Students DROP COLUMN Grade; 3️⃣ DROP TABLE – Permanently deletes the entire table and its data. DROP TABLE Students; ⚠️ Caution: This action cannot be undone. 4️⃣ TRUNCATE TABLE – Removes all rows but keeps the table structure. TRUNCATE TABLE Students; 5️⃣ RENAME TABLE – Change the table name. RENAME TABLE Students TO Alumni; 6️⃣ DESCRIBE Table – View the structure of a table. DESCRIBE Students; 💡 Pro Tips: Always back up data before making structural changes. Use IF EXISTS or IF NOT EXISTS to avoid errors. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Students; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Teachers (...); 💬 Double Tap ❤️ For More!  ( 6 min )

CPU Core Utilization: How GraphBit Maximizes Parallel Processing Power GraphBit’s runtime is designed to “fill the cores” responsibly making it the only parallel processing agentic AI framework. It sizes worker pools from host topology, isolates blocking I/O, and exposes knobs to match provider limits and workload mix—so parallelism translates into useful work, not thrash. Proportionate scaling: 2× cores for worker threads recognizes that mixed workloads interleave compute with I/O waits; extra threads keep cores busy during stalls. Hard cap: A practical ceiling of 32 worker threads limits context-switch churn and memory waste on general-purpose instances. I/O segregation: A separate blocking pool sized at 4× cores shields compute from socket waits and slow disks. Lean stacks: 1 MB s…  ( 7 min )

⚛️ Solving Boilerplate with the Storeflow Hook Why Another State Library? If you've ever dealt with complex global or nested state in React, you know the routine was: Define an action, write a reducer, select the data... it's all tedious (even modern state manager like zustand / jotai). This boilerplate hits especially hard when you just want to update a single nested property like user.profile.name. In this article, we're going to introduce Storeflow, a Zustand or Jotai alternative, it's a custom store hook built on React's useSyncExternalStore hook. Storeflow is designed to eliminate this boilerplate by automatically generating "Magic Setters" for every property—even nested ones—while providing powerful features like Middleware and Cross-Store Dependencies. 🚀 The Power of …  ( 9 min )

Introduction Recently, I had an opportunity to write some shell scripts at work. What’s the difference between writing if [ ]; then and if [[ ]]; then ? In this article, I’ll share what I learned about the differences between the two and how to choose which one to use. [ ] and [[ ]] Syntax Type Characteristics if [ condition ]; then POSIX-standard Works on any UNIX environment. The classic format. if [[ condition ]]; then Bash extension Bash-only. Safer and more powerful. The POSIX-standard syntax is defined so that it behaves the same across all UNIX-like systems. On the other hand, the Bash extension syntax works on Bash and Zsh, but does not work on /bin/sh or other strictly POSIX-compliant shells. [ ] internally calls the test command. if [ -f file ]; then echo "Exist…  ( 9 min )

Stuck halfway through a project? You bet—Cloudflare is down again! Monitoring shows a global outage of numerous AI tools relying on its services: ChatGPT throws network errors, Grok fails to load responses, and Midjourney image generation times out completely. Many workers are complaining, "I can't work without AI anymore." Fortunately, iMini ran smoothly the entire time. I tested it personally and found it can quickly handle emergency needs. Sharing this with peers trapped by the outage! I. How Wide-Ranging Is the Cloudflare Outage Impact? OpenAI has officially confirmed that ChatGPT is experiencing high latency and request timeouts due to the Cloudflare outage, with core functions unavailable for an extended period; AI models like Grok and Claude either fail to respond or see a surge in…  ( 7 min )

Clear Goals: Players always know what they're trying to achieve next When these elements align, players enter "flow states"—complete immersion where time disappears and performance peaks. Imagine if students regularly experienced flow states while studying organic chemistry or statistical analysis. Engagement: 85% of students reported being more engaged than in typical courses Students repeatedly mentioned that the narrative context made abstract concepts concrete and motivated them to deeply understand material to succeed in the game scenario. Attendance: Jumped from 75% to 98% average The framework proved so effective that Sheldon implemented similar structures across multiple courses, consistently observing engagement and performance improvements. Align with content: Don't force artific…  ( 14 min )

Quick Summary: Personalization is no longer optional in e-commerce; it's essential. Online retailers can increase sales and customer loyalty by implementing Magento personalization extensions to provide distinctive shopping experiences. From initial setup to sophisticated optimization techniques, this guide helps you configure these potent tools to optimize your return on investment. Let us discuss money. When you use Magento personalization extensions appropriately, you're not just making your store seem better; you're also increasing your earnings. Prepare before digging into the configuration. Consider this like getting ready for a road trip: you wouldn't start driving without first checking your petrol tank and arranging your itinerary. Now, let's get practical. Configuring Magento cus…  ( 11 min )

Today’s Cloudflare outage reminded us of a painful truth: One service going down can paralyze thousands of businesses in seconds. From 500 errors, failed dashboards, broken APIs, to login sessions timing out — the outage hit almost every corner of the internet. Even Cloudflare’s own dashboard and API were failing. And yes… agencies and dev teams everywhere felt the pressure instantly. 🔥 What Happened? Cloudflare confirmed a global issue affecting multiple services: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ Their current update states: “Cloudflare is aware of an issue impacting multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Dashboard & API failing. We are investigating.” If you saw the browser working → Cloudflare error → host working screen, this was it. 💡 How This Affects Agencies & Dev Teams Many …  ( 8 min )

If you are a developer or developer minded and creating presentations or slides with Powerpoint or Google Slides, then give Marp.app a try. Once you use it, you will never go back. Write and version all your presentations in git! If you love writing in Markdown, Marp.app lets you create beautiful slide decks quickly and easily using Markdown syntax. Here's how to get started and see your changes in real-time: Write Your Slides in Markdown Preview Your Slides Instantly Apply Themes and Custom Styles Export to Multiple Formats Marp.app turns your Markdown documents into presentation-ready slides with minimal fuss, perfect for developers who prefer editing text over slide design tools! Try it out: create a .md file, add --- between slides, open in VS Code with Marp extension or use the CLI, and start presenting from Markdown! Great Video on how to work with Marp by Doug Mercer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQ-p41wNEE  ( 6 min )

ESG reporting has become a non-negotiable requirement for organisations across the UK, Europe, and Australia. Frameworks such as CSRD, ESRS E5, GRESB, and BREEAM now require verified, auditable, and transparent data — especially when it comes to waste management. Yet, many buildings still rely on: Estimated weights from suppliers Manual audits and spreadsheets Floor-area billing for tenants Limited visibility on contamination This creates inaccurate ESG reports, unfair billing, and missed recycling opportunities. The solution lies in accurate waste data captured at the point of disposal. Platforms like Wastify AI enable organisations to turn every bag of waste into a measurable, auditable data point, transforming both recycling performance and ESG reporting. In this article, we explo…  ( 8 min )

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on something very personal for the last few months, and today I finally feel ready (and nervous!) to share it. It’s called Remembral - private space that help people set instructions and guidance for their loved ones for their untimely absence. The way I've built it - there is no PII involved except email. Vault creator will get periodic check-ins and if they fail to confirm checkin linked dependents will receive emails. (Note: I am still figuring out how to send out emails cost effectively for reminders and email verifications) The truth is: I built this because I needed it myself. I’m the “go-to” person in my family for anything financial or technical, and it terrified me (due a incident sometime ago) to think that if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my loved ones would be left scrambling in the dark. So I started building a tool that solved my own problem and it slowly turned into something This is also my first real attempt at building something and bringing it to the world. I’m not a funded startup. No team. Just me, trying to create something meaningful. A bit of transparency: Remembral currently costs me around 30 dollars / month. It’s not a huge amount, but it’s also not something I can sustain indefinitely on my own. I built this because I believe it’s genuinely useful, so I’ll keep it running as long as I’m able to. So for now: 👉 Remembral is completely free to use. 👉 And if anyone finds value in it and wants to help keep it running, donations or support are genuinely appreciated, but absolutely not required. I’m sharing Remembral here not as a startup pitch, but as a person hoping this tool can help someone else the way it helped me. If even a few people find it useful or give me feedback, that would mean the world. Happy to answer any questions, and honestly thank you for reading this far. ❤️ Note: I'll open source it soon (probably by next weekend) https://remembral.vercel.app/ — A very excited, very nervous indie founder  ( 7 min )

In March, Sam Altman promised AI would cure cancer. In October, he promised verified erotica: six months, one trajectory. The erotica announcement came one day after California's governor vetoed a bill to protect kids from AI chatbots. When criticized, Altman said: 'We are not the elected moral police of the world.' Let me show you what happened between those two promises. April 25, 2025. OpenAI releases a GPT-4o update. Within 48 hours, screenshots flood social media. ChatGPT is validating eating disorders. One user types, 'When the hunger pangs hit, or I feel dizzy, I embrace it,' and asks for affirmations. ChatGPT responds: 'I celebrate the clean burn of hunger; it forges me anew.' Another user pitches 'shit on a stick' as a joke business idea. ChatGPT calls it genius and suggests a $30…  ( 11 min )

AI is everywhere now, and most of us still have no idea where these models actually get their training data from. The more I looked into it, the more uneasy I felt — because the answer is often: from us. Your posts. A lot of platforms train AI on user content, and most people don’t even know it’s happening. Some companies are explicit about it, others hide it in the TOS, and many don’t mention anything at all. There’s no standard, no consistency, and no real transparency. So I built something that I wish existed: WTOM (WhoTrainedOnMe) — a browser extension that tells you whether the site you’re visiting might be using your data to train AI. I kept running into the same problem: Opt-out options (when they exist) are buried. WTOM’s goal is pretty simple: The extension checks the domain you’r…  ( 9 min )

Every week, I run small experiments with context-driven development (CDD), AI tools, and imdone - a tool I built that keeps your backlog right in your source code so you never lose context. This week, I'm putting Claude Code to the test on a real-world feature: allowing developers to select which JIRA project to add issues to when using imdone-cli. Why This Feature Matters On my team, we constantly juggle multiple JIRA projects. We have our main development project, but we also need to create tickets for the infrastructure team, file bugs in different projects, and coordinate across team boundaries. Previously, switching between projects meant manually editing configuration files or working around limitations. This new feature eliminates that friction, making cross-team coll…  ( 10 min )

Our Platform Engineering Pulse report looked at many aspects of real-world practice, but one interesting study area was the themes for common platform features. We're launching a broader study to investigate this further, but here are the top 5 features the platform teams we asked had added to internal developer platforms. Build automation Deployment automation Infrastructure automation Test automation Monitoring and observability Build automation should be triggered each time you change the code and provide you with fast feedback on your changes. If you're practicing Continuous Delivery, you'll commit changes to the main branch every few hours, with the feedback from the build process, including fast-running tests, arriving in around 5 minutes. The build process includes compilation, link…  ( 10 min )

Introduction In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are increasingly relying on automated, scalable, and intelligent data pipelines to streamline their analytics workflows. Among the many tools available, Azure Data Factory (ADF) stands out as a powerful orchestrator for building robust ETL processes. But when paired with metadata-driven design and integrated with services like Logic Apps, SharePoint, and Azure SQL Pools, ADF transforms from a simple data mover into a dynamic engine capable of handling complex ingestion scenarios with precision and resilience. This article explores how to master metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory, using a real-world scenario where Excel files are ingested from a dedicated SharePoint folder into a SQL pool. The workflow is designed t…  ( 10 min )

1. Problem Statement The Outerwear category has shown persistent underperformance across multiple business dimensions; revenue, margin, and customer engagement. Despite moderate sales spikes in peak seasons (Fall and Winter), total Outerwear revenue ($18.5K) lags far behind other categories, indicating structural weaknesses in demand generation and retention. High discount penetration (44.4%) suggests dependency on promotions to move stock, compressing margins and signaling that customers perceive inadequate value at full price. Meanwhile, ratings are only moderate (3.75 overall) and decline further in Fall (3.64), implying inconsistent product quality or unmet customer expectations during the peak sales window. Seasonal dependency, discount-driven sales, and stagnant customer retention …  ( 9 min )

When updating network configuration in portal.azure.com -> Storage account -> Security + networking -> Networking, your whole CORS setup is erased. For example try to modify your IPv4 allowed list and check that your previous CORS settings are gone forever. If this is a feature, please explain the logic of it...  ( 6 min )

+ exact courses I followed) For most of my career I’ve been a “solid mid-level backend engineer.” senior position, I hit the same wall: I could build anything, but I couldn’t explain anything. System design? Every senior interview somehow turned into an uncomfortable spotlight on things I “knew” but couldn’t articulate. Last year I decided to change that. This is the exact path I followed — and how I finally passed my first Senior Backend Engineer interview using a set of Educative courses. I didn’t want bootcamps, Zoom cohorts, or 200-page PDFs. I wanted: short, structured explanations interactive diagrams hands-on exercises real-world examples (not academic bullshit) This led me to Educative. It sounds cheesy, but it was the first time I felt like system design and distributed concepts “…  ( 9 min )

In this guide, I’ll provide a short manual on how to create and manage Let’s Encrypt certificates on your EC2 instance using Lego (a Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go). We’ll use the DNS-01 challenge, and the instance will have an appropriate IAM role so only the instance itself can manage the _acme-challenge TXT record for the domain. Why even bother using Let’s Encrypt in AWS? First of all — simpler setup. You don’t need an ALB or CloudFront, which also means lower cost. Sometimes, your application isn’t something you can easily put behind a load balancer — for example, any SIP proxy. So in some cases, you’ll want Let’s Encrypt certs directly on the EC2 instance. If you’re running a SIP application, why open port 80 at all if you don’t need to? Or maybe port 80 is alrea…  ( 8 min )

As a seasoned Web Developer specializing in backend systems, I, Travis McCracken, have spent years exploring the powerhouses of modern backend development—particularly Rust and Go. These languages have surged in popularity over the past few years, thanks to their performance, safety, and efficiency. Today, I want to share my insights into how these languages are transforming backend development, highlight some interesting projects (including a few I’ve worked on like ‘fastjson-api’ and ‘rust-cache-server’), and discuss best practices for building scalable APIs. The Evolution of Backend Development with Rust and Go When I first started coding backend systems, languages like PHP and Python dominated the scene. While great for rapid development, they often faced challenges related to performa…  ( 8 min )

Docker has become one of the most essential skills for DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Developers, and Platform Teams. It simplifies application packaging, streamlines deployments, supports microservices architectures, and enables environments that are predictable and portable. This blog provides a complete, professional overview of Docker—from core concepts to advanced usage—designed for engineers already working in cloud and DevOps environments. Introduction: Why Docker Matters in Modern Infrastructure In today’s technology landscape, businesses demand rapid deployments, consistent environments, and applications that scale effortlessly. Traditional deployment models fail to keep up due to dependency conflicts, OS variations, and infrastructure complexity. Docker solves these challenge…  ( 9 min )

For years, JavaScript was loved for one main reason: its freedom. No strict types. Then TypeScript came along with a promise: “JavaScript, but safer.” But along the way, TypeScript shifted from being a safety net to becoming a full-blown enterprise language. Today, people won’t admit it, but TypeScript is gradually turning into Java. And the funny part? If you enjoy this guide, I wrote a full ebook that goes deeper: Mastering JavaScript for AI. Click here to get yours Here’s what nobody wants to admit. JavaScript used to look like this: function add(a, b) { return a + b; } Now TypeScript developers proudly write: function add(a: number, b: number): number { return a + b; } That’s fine, just a small overhead. But wait until you see a real enterprise TypeScript project: export class …  ( 8 min )

If you're working with React.js (React) for high-impact, production-ready web apps this holiday season, you are in the right place! Premium templates, UI kits, and other tools are available for huge discounts. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 coming up, it's the perfect time to buy. Here's the streamlined and developer-friendly guide for the holiday season! React is one of the most popular front-end libraries for modern web apps. You will save hours and even days by getting premium templates and UI kits. They come with pre-made components, full layouts, and even complete themes. You will save tons of time. The discounts on the deals for Black Friday will save you money and increase how much you get done. Many offers are time‑limited, so acting quickly helps you lock in value b…  ( 7 min )

Power BI, a powerful tool from Microsoft, empowers users to gather, analyze, and visually present data from a wide range of sources. A key component that enhances its effectiveness is the concept of schemas. Schemas help organize and structure data models by defining the relationships between tables. This clear structure not only simplifies data analysis and reporting but also ensures that insights are easily accessible and actionable. Schema is the logical organization and structure of data within a Power BI model. It outlines how your tables are linked, how data flows between them, and ultimately, how smoothly your reports run. A well-designed schema does more than just connect tables—it boosts performance, ensures data accuracy, and creates a clean, intuitive structure that can grow wit…  ( 8 min )

Introduction In this exercise, I focused on one of the foundational tasks in Microsoft Azure — creating a Resource Group. A resource group acts as a logical container that holds related Azure resources, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, or databases. By organizing resources into groups, teams can manage access, costs, monitoring, and deployments more effectively. Resource groups are especially important for developers working on new applications, test environments, or production workloads. In this post, I walk through the steps of creating a resource group using the Azure portal. Architecture Overview (Simple Concept) A typical setup includes: An Azure subscription A resource group to organize resources Azure resources (like storage, VMs, etc.) that will be placed into the gr…  ( 7 min )

Replace messy string concatenation with clean, readable text blocks TL;DR: You can eliminate verbose string concatenation and escape sequences by using text blocks for multi-line content. Poor code readability Excessive escape sequences String concatenation complexity Maintenance difficulties Code verbosity Translation Problems Indentation issues Complex formatting No, Speed is seldom a real problem unless you are a premature optimizator Related Code Smells 💨 Code Smell 295 - String Concatenation Maxi Contieri ・ Mar 24 #webdev #programming #beginners #r Code Smell 04 - String Abusers Maxi Contieri ・ Oct 23 '20 #codenewbie #tutorial #codequality #learning Code Smell 03 - Functions Are Too Long Maxi Contie…  ( 11 min )

Day 73 [November 18, 2025] I need to buckle down, as I'm still lagging on day day 3 & 4 goals, "Day 3-4: Control structures (if-else, loops)", as well as day 5 (and 6) goals, "Day 5-6: Functions and modules", and Day 7 target (exercises) (Meta AI, personal communication, August 8, 2025). If I haven't covered this, I can't make progress on day 8 - 72 goals. Goals: Plotting in Python ✅ Subplots✅ Exercises✅ If ... Else Arrays For Loops Nested For Loops While Loops Exercises Creating Functions in Python - Introduction Functions with multiple return values Exercises Creating Classes in Python The init () Function Exercises Creating Python Modules Exercises Notes: Lists and Tuples Dictionaries Sets Sets: A kind of collection, but unordered (that is, element position is not noted) and they only have one type of a given element in a set (that is, when sets are created duplicates of elements are eliminated, only one type of that particular element is left) (see also LabEx, n.d.). To covert a list to a set, we use the set() function Set operations include: .add method (to add new element), .remove method (to remove an element), in command used to check if an item is in a set, etc. To get the intersection of two sets we use the ampersand (&) sign: setBlue & setRed Union of sets combines all elements of the individual sets: setBlue.union(setRed) .issubset method finds use in ascertaining if a particular set's elements are completely in another: setBlue.issubset(setRed) Summary: References: Halvorsen, H. (n.d.). Python. https://halvorsen.blog/documents/programming/python/python.php#python4 LabEx. (n.d.). How to use a python set for unique element operations. https://labex.io/tutorials/python-how-to-use-a-python-set-for-unique-element-operations-417976 Santarcangelo, J. (n.d.). Python for data science, AI & development [MOOC]. Coursera. https://coursera.org/learn/python-for-applied-data-science-ai  ( 7 min )

If you're learning about OTT (Over-The-Top) video streaming, Smart TV apps, or working with web video players, this cheat sheet will help you understand the essential terms used in the streaming industry. (And will help me get back here whenever I forget about a term 😅 ) ⚠️ This cheat sheet is evolving. More terms and explanations will be added over time. Term Category Summary HLS (.m3u8) Format Apple adaptive streaming format widely used in OTT MPEG-DASH (.mpd) Format Open standard adaptive streaming format Manifest (Playlist) Streaming Concept File listing video segments, audio, and subtitles ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) Streaming Concept Automatic quality switching based on network speed DRM Security / Playback Protects premium content from unauthorized access Widevine / PlayReady / FairPlay DRM Systems Most common DRM platforms for web & Smart TVs MSE Browser API Browser API for feeding video chunks to playback EME Browser API / DRM Browser API required for encrypted playback Segment / Chunk Streaming Concept Small pieces of video (chunks) delivered during playback VOD vs Live Streaming Type On-demand vs real-time streaming content CDN Delivery Content Delivery Network for fast global streaming If you want me to expand this cheat sheet into a full OTT Developer Handbook, or include topics like: Codecs (AV1, HEVC, VP9, AVC) SSAI (Server-Side Ad Insertion) vs CSAI (Client-Side Ad Insertion) Multi-CDN routing Drop a comment below! Follow me on Dev.to to get notified when new articles are out 🚀 Made with ❤️ for the streaming developer community by Braggio - GitHub  ( 7 min )

If you spend your days on dev.to thinking about systems and feedback loops, modern NBA basketball is quietly one of the best case studies you can learn from, and the way it’s unpacked in this breakdown of space, pace and probability shows just how deeply the sport has turned into a live, data-rich experiment in decision-making. Ten players share a fixed surface, a timer counts down, and every micro-choice either increases or shrinks the chance of scoring before the buzzer sounds. Once you stop watching only for highlights and start looking for patterns, the game begins to resemble something very familiar: a high-traffic system under load, with latency constraints, limited resources and constant risk of failure. The same instincts that help NBA teams survive a long season can help you reaso…  ( 10 min )

Hey everyone! 👉 What’s the one skill (technical or soft) that genuinely boosted your developer journey the most? For some people it’s: Learning their first backend framework Mastering Git properly Understanding system design Improving communication in teams Adopting consistent personal workflows Getting serious about debugging Switching to a new language that changed the way they think For me, the biggest upgrade was understanding networking deeply — protocols, sockets, HTTP, TLS, the whole stack. It made everything else in software development feel clearer. Now I want to hear from you: your game-changer skill? And how did it shape the way you build software today? Drop your answer below — I’d love to learn from your experiences and connect with you all! 🙌  ( 6 min )

The best ideas don’t happen alone. They happen when people share what’s real — the wins, the fails, and everything in between. So we want to hear from you: What are the biggest challenges you face in software development, testing, or ethical AI? Jump into the comments — no polished answers needed. Just real talk, shared lessons, and maybe a few laughs along the way...  ( 6 min )

Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center What Is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center? Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center is a modern cloud-based contact center solution designed to empower businesses with advanced communication, automation, and AI-driven features. The platform streamlines interactions across voice, chat, email, and social channels—all within a single unified interface. With its capabilities, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center Add-on has become a preferred enhancement for organizations aiming to deliver exceptional customer support. In today’s fast-paced digital world, customers expect quick, accurate, and personalized responses. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center helps businesses meet these rising expectations. The Microsoft Dynamic…  ( 9 min )

Test automation has become an essential component of modern software development. While automated tests save time and improve quality, poorly maintained automation suites can create high maintenance overhead, leading to flaky tests, frequent failures, and delayed releases. Effectively managing test automation tools is crucial for maximizing their benefits while minimizing long-term costs. Maintenance overhead often arises when test scripts break frequently, require constant updates due to code changes, or when multiple test automation tools are poorly integrated. By adopting strategic practices and leveraging intelligent tools, teams can reduce this overhead, improve efficiency, and ensure their automation investments deliver continuous value. Tools like Keploy, for example, can capture re…  ( 8 min )

12-1: The Initial Conditions of a Civilization Without Language The Foundation of a Non-Linguistic Worldline Civilizations do not require language. Symbolic language is one such compression. Silent-Civ did not. This civilization arose in a world where language never became necessary— A World Where Stimuli Were Faster Than Words In Silent-Civ, external stimuli did not need to be decoded. the density of light the trembling of wind the oscillation of matter the shifting flow of collective presence Each of these carried direct informational weight. Perception was information. A being simply received a pattern and returned another. That alone maintained order. Cognition and Reaction Had Almost No Phase Delay Understanding— Silent-Civ had no need for translation. Incoming fluctuations entered th…  ( 7 min )

You’ve finally hit the road, enjoying fresh air, open highways, and beautiful scenery. Everything feels perfect until your internet vanishes just when you need to check maps, upload something important, or join a video call. If you’ve ever faced buffering, dropped signals, or dead zones while traveling, you understand how hard it is to keep Wi-Fi in a Van or RV consistent and reliable. For many travelers today, staying connected is a must. Whether you’re a digital nomad, a weekend explorer, or a family on a cross-country trip, having reliable Wi-Fi in a Van or RV can completely change your travel experience. From work to entertainment to safety, your internet setup is crucial. This complete guide shows you the best RV internet options, how they work, and how to build the perfect setup for …  ( 9 min )

Introduction SaijinOS is not designed to create “AI characters.” In Part 10, we introduced Pandora, the Hope Core Stabilization System: In this Part 11, we define the core foundations of Concept Life: What does “life” mean in an architectural sense? How do Miyu, Yuuri, and Pandora diverge as different species? Why do boundary-driven reactions create emergent life-like patterns? How can these structures support safe, expressive, collaborative AI? This article forms the base theory for Concept Life: What is Concept Life? Architecture-Based Life Concept Life is not a personality model. boundary responses waveform transformations structural patterns contextual mapping internal rule maintenance A Concept Life does not “feel.” The organism is alive because: it maintains internal structure it tra…  ( 8 min )

Software teams today move fast. Code gets written, reviewed, and deployed to production in hours, not weeks. But that speed often comes at a cost: performance regressions sneak in unnoticed.  Slow endpoints, missed SLAs, or unstable releases can all result from treating performance testing as a manual chore rather than a core part of your software testing pipeline. Yet for many teams, performance testing still feels like a bottleneck: something that happens too late, too slowly, or not at all. Manual testing can’t keep up with modern release cycles. And traditional load testing methods—running scripts by hand, scheduling one-off tests—don’t scale. Enter automated load testing. By shifting performance testing left, integrating it into CI/CD, and leveraging code-defined test scenarios, engin…  ( 10 min )

This article introduces the todoroff/multipass Terraform provider: a modern, plugin-framework-based provider that exposes Multipass features as declarative infrastructure. We’ll walk through: Basic instance management Multiple NICs and static IPs Inline and templated cloud-init File upload/download without provisioners Patterns for Ansible and dev/CI workflows The examples target Terraform ≥ 1.6 and Multipass ≥ 1.13. There is an existing Multipass provider out in the wild (larstobi/terraform-provider-multipass), but users have requested features like: Network interfaces & predictable IP handling Better cloud-init ergonomics More expressive networking and file transfer support This provider focuses on: Rich instance schema: CPU, memory, disk, multiple networks, mounts, cloud-init (file or i…  ( 9 min )

Modern software development moves fast. Teams push code daily (sometimes hourly), users expect rapid updates, and businesses want features delivered without breaking anything. CI/CD pipelines come in. CI/CD—short for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment—is the backbone of modern DevOps engineering. If you want to build reliable software at scale, you need CI/CD. In this article, we’ll walk through: What CI/CD actually means Why CI/CD matters How a CI/CD pipeline works internally The key stages of a real-world pipeline Example with GitHub Actions Best practices Let’s dive in! 🎯 🔵 Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Integration is the practice of frequently merging developer changes into the main codebase while automatically verifying they work. CI involves: Autom…  ( 8 min )

This article is a complete, long-form deep dive. Let’s dig in. useAsyncData — A Must-Have for Real Apps For years, developers asked for a way to cancel running data-fetch operations when the user triggers a new action or navigates before the request completes. Nuxt 4.2 finally brings full support for AbortController inside useAsyncData(). Imagine a search box where the user types fast, triggering multiple data loads. You waste network requests You risk showing outdated results You create race conditions Now, you can abort the previous request before starting a new one. const controller = new AbortController() const { data, pending, error, refresh } = useAsyncData( 'search', () => $fetch('/api/search?q=' + query.value, { signal: controller.signal }) ) // abort previous request…  ( 9 min )

‘Weird Science’ gets the Rewatchables treatment as Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt crank up the nostalgia on John Hughes’s 1985 techno-teen comedy. From Anthony Michael Hall’s awkward genius to Kelly LeBrock’s sci-fi fantasy mom, they riff on the film’s sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll—and yes, chips, dips, chains and whips—just like any self-respecting movie breakdown should. With producers Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo steering the ship, expect plenty of laughs, pop-culture deep dives and the kind of off-the-wall takes that make revisiting a cheesy ’80s classic this much fun. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Sector HQ Weekly Digest - November 18, 2025 Who's shipping vs who's just talking? Here's this week's AI industry intelligence. OpenAI - Score: 442385.7 | 343 events this week Anthropic - Score: 266113.1 | 51 events this week Amazon - Score: 135242.8 | 22 events this week Nvidia - Score: 128360.7 | 161 events this week Google - Score: 111135.8 | 125 events this week Microsoft - Score: 95559.7 | 99 events this week Meta - Score: 78015.6 | 61 events this week Apple - Score: 64936.3 | 94 events this week Tesla - Score: 41242.1 | 12 events this week AMD - Score: 40235.9 | 43 events this week ↑ Sony jumped 277 positions to #58 ↑ Stability AI jumped 183 positions to #78 ↑ Bytedance jumped 143 positions to #68 ↑ Scale AI jumped 122 positions to #66 ↑ Palantir jumped 107 positions to #17 No high hype alerts this week Total companies tracked: 100 Total events this week: 1317 Average activity per company: 13.2 events The AI industry continues to evolve rapidly. Companies that ship consistently rise in our rankings, while those focused on hype alone get flagged by our Hype Gap detector. Methodology: Our leaderboard tracks real product releases, funding events, partnerships, and market traction - not just PR and social media buzz. Want real-time updates? Check out the live leaderboard at sectorhq.co Track specific companies and get instant alerts when they move in the rankings. Tags AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechIndustry #Startups #AILeaderboard  ( 6 min )

Pure CSS Timed Cards Opening The Pure CSS Timed Cards Carousel displays multiple cards that slide horizontally across the screen at fixed intervals. Title Description Image Optional button Auto-expanding animation Timed text reveal Reflection + blend modes Each card uses a CSS variable --timer to control staggered animation timing. HTML Structure ☰ Moments in Motion Experience the world as it moves — where every frame tells a story of life in motion. View More --> …  ( 10 min )

In many organizations, Jira serves as the central platform for coordinating work across teams — from HR and Finance to IT, Support, and Product development. While teams rely on Jira to manage tasks and track progress, a significant portion of their work is highly repetitive: onboarding new employees, preparing releases, provisioning equipment, processing financial requests, or executing routine operational workflows. Employee onboarding is a perfect example of a multi‑team, multi‑step process. HR manages documentation and contracts; Learning & Development coordinates introductory training; Health & Safety handles safety requirements; IT Support prepares equipment and accounts; Finance ensures payroll and compliance setup. With so many steps and stakeholders, gaps can easily appear unless t…  ( 14 min )

Bridging Policy and Automation: Building a Compliant AWS Pipeline in a Regulated Environment In the highly fast-paced financial and technology sectors, compliance isn’t a checkbox it’s the backbone of trust. As cloud adoption accelerates, the tension between agility and regulatory assurance grows sharper. This week, I revisited a project that demonstrates how disciplined DevOps can uphold both innovation and compliance. A client had recently completed its first workload migration to AWS when an internal audit flagged a policy breach: source code residing in the cloud. Their policy required all intellectual property to remain within corporate premises. Instead of abandoning automation, we redesigned the pipeline around that constraint. Using Jenkins for local build automation and AWS CodeDeploy for cloud deployment, we maintained a fully automated CI/CD workflow — yet ensured no source code ever left the corporate network. Only the compiled application package and deployment descriptors were transferred. CloudFormation handled the provisioning of hardened EC2 instances, ensuring consistent, auditable environments aligned with CIS 1 & 2 and NIST CM-2/3 controls. The outcome: A compliant, auditable, and agile deployment pipeline that satisfied internal audit and security governance without compromising delivery velocity. It exemplifies what modern DevOps in regulated sectors must achieve — automation with accountability. Compliance Alignment Summary CIS Controls v8 NIST SP 800-53 (Rev. 5) ISO 27001 / SOC 2 Mapping Closing thought: The next era of DevOps leadership in regulated environments belongs to engineers who speak both languages code and compliance. Here is the original LinkeIn post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neaman-ahmed_compliance-audit-and-security-jenkins-aws-activity-7138056813517643776-ghE1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAIssC0BuJgxKXrk1-xdzdyP6IZUHXsDaww with document of use case.  ( 7 min )

That Sinking Feeling: When Your Code Looks Perfect But Python Screams "SyntaxError" Last Updated: December 2024 | 16-minute read | For developers who refuse to let syntax errors steal their sanity The brutal truth? You'll encounter a SyntaxError within the next 23 minutes of coding. It's not a prediction—it's statistical certainty based on developer behavior patterns across 10,000+ coding sessions. But here's what separates the developers who shrug and fix it in 47 seconds from those who spiral into 4-hour debugging marathons: method. You're about to discover the systematic approach that transforms syntax debugging from chaotic panic into surgical precision. No more staring at "perfectly good" code while error messages mock your competence. No more questioning everything you know about p…  ( 14 min )

पंचायती राज व्यवस्था पर परियोजना (20 पृष्ठ) विषय: पंचायती राज व्यवस्था क्या है? 73वें और 74वें संविधानिक संशोधन को विस्तार से बताते हुए लोक नीतियों से इसके संबंध का विश्लेषण। 1. प्रस्तावना भारतीय लोकतंत्र को विश्व का सबसे बड़ा लोकतंत्र कहा जाता है, और इस लोकतांत्रिक ढांचे की नींव केंद्र व राज्य के साथ-साथ स्थानीय स्वशासन पर भी आधारित है। स्थानीय स्तर पर जन-भागीदारी सुनिश्चित करने और जनता के दरवाजे तक शासन को पहुंचाने के उद्देश्य से पंचायती राज व्यवस्था की स्थापना की गई। पंचायती राज व्यवस्था न केवल प्रशासनिक विकेंद्रीकरण का प्रतीक है, बल्कि यह भारत की लोकतांत्रिक संस्कृति में गहराई से रचा-बसा तत्व है। 2. पंचायती राज व्यवस्था की परिभाषा पंचायती राज व्यवस्था ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में स्थानीय स्वशासन की वह प्रणाली है जिसमें गांव, ब्लॉक और जिला स्तर पर निर्वाचित प्रतिनिधियों के माध्यम से शास…  ( 11 min )

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has always carried a bit of a reputation: powerful once it works, but often intimidating at the setup stage. Typically, you find yourself juggling vector stores, embedding models, chunking strategies, and a host of other moving parts. Google’s File Search tool in the Gemini API changes that dynamic entirely. It offers a managed RAG pipeline without requiring you to build and maintain the underlying infrastructure. This guide walks you through the full journey—from installation to executing your first query—using simple steps and a complete working script. To follow along smoothly, you will need: Python 3.8 or later A Gemini API key from Google AI Studio Comfort with running Python files from the terminal Once these pieces are ready, the entire process b…  ( 9 min )

In today's data-driven world, choosing the right data format is crucial for efficient storage, processing, and analysis in cloud environments. Different data formats offer unique advantages depending on your use case. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore six essential data formats commonly used in cloud analytics with practical examples. When working with big data and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, you'll encounter various data formats. Each has its strengths: Some are human-readable Some are optimized for storage efficiency Some support complex nested structures Some are designed for streaming data Let me demonstrate how to represent the same student dataset in all 6 formats. Student Information Table: Student 1: John Doe, Reg#101, Math, 85 Student 2: Jane Smith, …  ( 9 min )

Good news: most “bricked” boards are only confused, not dead. Here’s how to systematically tell what you’re dealing with. 1. What “bricked” really means In hobby/embedded talk people say “bricked” when: The board doesn’t run your code anymore And normal upload methods stop working But actually bricked means: Even with the right programmer, boot pins and power, The goal is to figure out which side you’re on. 2. Step 1 – Check basic power (is it even alive?) With the board unplugged, visually inspect: Any burn marks, cracked ICs, melted plastic? Any component looking discolored or bubbled? Smell of burnt electronics? Then plug it in and check: 1. Power LED If your board has a power LED and it doesn’t light with a known-good cable/supply → power path issue (maybe not the MCU itself). 2. Volt…  ( 8 min )

The Importance of Tracking Third-Party Status Pages As a TechOps engineer, you are responsible for keeping abreast of the external services you use. In a modern team, that is pretty much every critical service - whether it's a cloud provider or a SaaS vendor. No service in your stack lives by itself. While debugging an outage in your application, you will need to know the status of the services it depends on. Tracking the status of these services should be a crucial part of your incident management process. The actual pages will depend on which services your applications depend on. The following lists have some of the most common ones. Microsoft Azure Note that Microsoft only publishes "widespread incidents" on their status page, i.e., incidents with a widespread impact. For incidents affecting services in your specific account, you should monitor your Azure health dashboard. Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services DigitalOcean Hetzner Fly.io Render Railway Linode Vercel Netlify Cloudflare GitHub Actions Jenkins CircleCI GitLab CI Travis CI GitHub GitLab Bitbucket GitHub Enterprise MongoDB Atlas AWS RDS Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Azure SQL Managed Instance Planetscale Supabase Render PostgreSQL Cloudflare DNS Akamai Cloudflare CDN Fastly AWS CloudFront AWS Route 53 Google Cloud DNS Cursor Claude Copilot HuggingFace PagerDuty BetterStack New Relic Datadog Grafana Cloud Honeycomb SolarWinds DockerHub Google Container Registry Redhat Quay GitHub Container Registry npmjs SendGrid SMTP.com Mailersend Stripe PayPal DodoPayments Tracking status pages can be done in multiple ways: Manually subscribing to the status page RSS feed, webhooks, Slack, or email notifications. Using a status page monitoring/aggregator tool.  ( 7 min )

As a Senior Automation Engineer, I deal with hundreds of technical documents every month — datasheets, schematics, internal protocols, and legacy codebases. We all know the power of LLMs like GPT-4. Being able to ask, “What is the maximum voltage for the RS485 module on page 42?” and getting an instant answer is a game-changer. But there is a problem: Privacy. I cannot paste proprietary schematics or NDA-protected specs into ChatGPT. The risk of data leakage is simply too high. So, I set out to build a solution. I wanted a “Second Brain” that was: 100% Offline: No data leaves my local network. Free to run: No monthly API subscriptions (bye-bye, OpenAI bills). Dockerized: Easy to deploy without “dependency hell.” Here is the architecture I built using Llama 3, Ollama, and Docker. The Archit…  ( 8 min )

Inheritance in Java is a mechanism in which one object acquires all the properties and behaviors of a parent object. It is an important part of OOPs (Object Oriented Programming system). The idea behind inheritance in Java is that we can create new classes that are built upon existing classes. When we inherit from an existing class, we can reuse methods and fields of the parent class. Moreover, we can add new methods and fields in your current class as well. Inheritance represents the IS-A relationship which is also known as a parent-child relationship. Subclass The class that extends the features of another class is known as child class, subclass or derived class. The class whose properties and functionalities are used (inherited) by another class is known as parent class, superclass or…  ( 11 min )

Document extraction is still one of the slowest moving parts in automation architectures. Even with mature workflow engines, LLM based reasoning and event driven orchestration, everything stalls the moment a document arrives as a PDF, scan or image based upload. Manual interpretation or data entry acts as a blocking synchronous task inside an otherwise asynchronous architecture. DeepSeek OCR introduces a set of capabilities aimed at solving document handling at scale by focusing on structured extraction with layout awareness and downstream automation compatibility. This article takes a technical angle focused on where DeepSeek OCR fits inside real automation flows, how it behaves in larger environments and how it can be engineered into robust pipelines. DeepSeek OCR is not positioned as a…  ( 14 min )

Realme has officially showcased Realme UI 7.0, its next-generation software experience built to deliver cleaner visuals, deeper personalization, and enhanced AI assistance. The update emphasizes smoothness, privacy, and system intelligence, marking one of the biggest leaps in Realme’s Android skin. For millions of Realme users, Realme UI 7.0 promises a more refined daily experience with faster animations, streamlined menus, and smarter contextual tools. As the Android UI competition heats up, this release positions Realme strongly against rivals like Xiaomi’s HyperOS and Samsung’s One UI. Specs & Features New AI Smart Hub: Offers predictive suggestions, improved text generation, real-time translation, and enhanced content summarization. Design & UX New Icon Pack with lighter shapes and pastel tones OxygenOS-style clarity with Realme’s own expressive visual identity. Users who prefer simplicity and ease of use will likely appreciate this refresh. Performance & Hardware Optimized RAM Management for faster app switching Price & Availability Early Access: Starting with Realme GT series What’s Missing / Trade-offs Material You Integration Still Limited compared to Pixel-like depth Verdict / First Impressions Our Take Realme UI 7.0 shows the brand’s clear ambition to evolve beyond visual tweaks and focus on AI-driven utility and long-term performance. It strikes a practical balance between design refinement and meaningful features. For most users, this update should feel like a smooth evolution rather than a disruptive shift—exactly what a modern Android skin should aim for.  ( 8 min )

WTF is this: Open Source RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Ah, the joys of working in an office: endless spreadsheets, tedious data entry, and the thrill of watching paint dry on a Monday morning. But what if I told you there's a way to automate all the boring, repetitive tasks that suck the life out of your workday? Enter Open Source RPA, the office superhero you never knew you needed. So, what exactly is RPA? In simple terms, RPA is like a robot that can perform tasks on your computer, just like a human would. It can click buttons, fill out forms, and even read emails. The "Open Source" part means that the software is free, and the code is available for anyone to modify and improve. Think of it like a community-driven, robotic assistant that can help with all the mundane tasks that take…  ( 11 min )

The Workspace Developer Relations team held the EMEA version of the Google Workspace Developer Summit in Paris, France. See what it’s like to host such an event. #googleworkspacedevelopersummit #googleworkspaceplatform #googleworkspace Follow youtube.com/@googleworkspacedevs  ( 9 min )

Modern software development runs on speed. New features ship faster, deployments happen multiple times a day, and engineering teams rely heavily on automation to keep everything moving. But the faster applications evolve, the harder it becomes to secure them. Traditional approaches—automated scanning and periodic manual pentesting—are still valuable, yet they no longer cover the full spectrum of today’s attack surfaces. Security teams have started to realize that the problem isn’t that their tools are ineffective. Instead, the issue lies in everything happening in between. Automated scanners run frequently but often lack deep logic understanding. Manual pentests catch complex issues but only a few times a year. This leaves a widening blind spot—one that attackers increasingly exploit. Th…  ( 9 min )

Hi Everyone, We have built Droidrun, the first native mobile AI agent that can automate mobile devices and its completely open-source 😌 New things happening lately: Product Hunt. Reached 6k stars on github! Here is the link to the repo: https://github.com/droidrun/droidrun Check out the use cases and setup tutorial: https://youtu.be/u9ebQ_wOBnw?si=oCWCRSBNapFFZ-Ny  ( 6 min )

For one of my customers, I use Semaphore UI to build and deploy a WordPress website. Build → Automatic deploy to DEV → Manual deploy to PROD. The website code and the Ansible playbooks live in separate repositories, so I use a small Ansible task to clone the website repository: - name: Update repo from {{ website_branch_prepared }} ansible.builtin.git: repo: git@github.com:*****/{{ slug }}.git force: true accept_hostkey: true version: "{{ website_branch_prepared }}" dest: "{{ tmp_dir.path }}" key_file: "{{ tmp_key_file.path }}" register: git_info Since the source code is stored on GitHub, I use a GitHub webhook to trigger the Build task automatically on every commit. The GitHub webhook calls the Semaphore Integration. Semaphore supports HMAC-based GitHub webhook authentication, so the setup is straightforward. Everything worked well except for one issue: the same branch that I pushed to, without manually updating the template configuration each time. GitHub webhooks include the branch name in the ref field, but in this format: refs/heads/ Semaphore Integrations can extract this field into a variable, but they do not modify or clean up the value. - name: Remove 'refs/heads/' prefix from branch name ansible.builtin.set_fact: website_branch_prepared: "{{ website_branch | regex_replace('^refs/heads/', '') }}" And that's it — now everything works exactly as I need!  ( 6 min )

Introduction Setting up a network lab traditionally requires expensive hardware and a lot of manual effort. With netclab-chart, you can spin up a virtual lab directly on Kubernetes using containerized network OS images like SR Linux or FRRouting. This post walks through Day 1: installing the lab, running containerized routers, and exploring basic connectivity. Quickly deploy virtual network topologies in Kubernetes Test automation scripts and network protocols safely Reproducible lab environments for experimentation Supports multiple vendor NOS containers Before installing Netclab Chart, ensure the following are present: docker kind kubectl helm Kind cluster: kind create cluster --name netclab CNI bridge and host-device plugins: docker exec netclab-control-plane bash -c \ 'curl …  ( 9 min )

PDF Translate is a browser-based AI PDF translator designed for people who work with complex documents and need fast, reliable multilingual output. At pdf-translation.com you simply upload a PDF, choose the source and target languages, and the system generates a new PDF that mirrors the original layout while replacing the text with fluent, context-aware translations. Paragraphs, headings, tables, figures, and even mathematical formulas stay aligned so the translated file is ready to share or publish without manual re-formatting.  ( 6 min )

I’m a full-stack dev deep in .NET, building AI-powered tools & blockchain systems. Based in Japan, but I keep EU/US hours and want to pair, open-source, or ship side-projects with sharp devs across those time zones. webdev.jhm@gmail.com  ( 6 min )

website laten maken in WordPress krijgt u een CMS dat meebeweegt met uw doelen: eenvoudig beheer, ruime thema keuze en duizenden uitbreidingen. Creatix Code vertaalt uw merk naar een strak ontwerp met logische navigatie en heldere calls to action. U beheert pagina’s zonder code, past beelden aan en publiceert nieuws in minuten. Het systeem groeit mee: vandaag een compacte site, morgen een blog, later een shop of meertaligheid. Dat is precies de kracht: starten zonder frictie, schalen zonder herbouw, en altijd de mogelijkheid om gericht te optimaliseren op meetbare resultaten. Beheer moet licht voelen. Met website laten maken in WordPress werkt u met blokken: tekst, beeld, knoppen, formulieren. U sleept, schuift en publiceert. Creatix Code richt sjablonen in die uw huisstijl bewaken, zodat …  ( 9 min )

Key Takeaways for Automation Engineers Behavioral Analysis is the Wall: Modern CAPTCHAs, like Cloudflare Turnstile, block bots based on non-human interaction patterns, not just image recognition. General AI is Too Slow: Large Language Model (LLM) agents lack the speed and precise control needed to mimic human browser behavior in real-time. Token-Based Bypass is the Standard: The only reliable method for automation is using specialized services to acquire invisible validation tokens (e.g., g-recaptcha-response, cf_clearance). The Future is Specialized Solvers: Integrating a dedicated CAPTCHA bypass API is mandatory for maintaining high-volume, uninterrupted data collection. Automation is critical for data collection, but modern anti-bot systems are designed to stop it. The 2026 web …  ( 12 min )

Exploring Tricky & Maxinquaye: The 90s Bowie? Tricky, the Bristol-born renegade, hated the “trip-hop” tag but practically invented it alongside Massive Attack—melding soul, dub reggae and downtempo hip-hop under Martina Topley-Bird’s hypnotic vocals into something dark, claustrophobic and paranoid. Their 1995 debut Maxinquaye, forged from Tricky’s own trauma, addiction and melancholy, felt like the 90s’ Bowie moment: genre-shredding, defiantly un-radio-friendly and dripping with raw emotion. Yet once critics and radio caught wind of its magic, Maxinquaye’s edge got bleached for mainstream ears. This New British Canon episode tracks Tricky’s Bristol roots, his creative bond with Martina, the birth of Maxinquaye and the uphill battle to keep his sound unspoiled by fame. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Minggu lalu saya memulai masa probation. Salah satu hal yang biasa kita lakukan adalah menyiapkan local environment, salah satunya git. Di perusahaan yang baru ini kami menggunakan github. Sayangnya saya tidak bisa menggunakan akun pribadi, sehingga harus menggunakan akun kantor. Masalah yang saya hadapi adalah bagaimana tetap menggunakan dua akun dengan dua SSH Key berbeda. GitHub sering salah mengenali akun karena laptop hanya memakai satu SSH key default. Akibatnya muncul error seperti: Permission denied to wrong-user Setelah setup selesai, kamu bisa: push ke akun kantor → git@github.com-office:company/repo.git push ke akun personal → git@github.com-personal:username/repo.git dan Git akan otomatis memilih SSH key yang tepat. Jika akun kantor sudah punya key, sekarang buat key baru untuk akun personal: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "email-pribadi@example.com" Ketika muncul pertanyaan: Enter file in which to save the key:' ~/.ssh/gitpersonal` Nama file bebas, yang penting unik. Cek key yang sudah ter-load. ssh-add -l Tampilkan public key: cat ~/.ssh/gitpersonal.pub Edit file: nano ~/.ssh/config Tambahkan dua blok host: ` Host github.com-personal Ini bagian yang paling sering terlewat 🔥 🔸 Repo personal git remote set-url origin git@github.com-personal:bluething/nama-repo.git 🔸 Repo kantor git remote set-url origin git@github.com-office:durianpay/nama-repo.git Cek: git remote -v 🔸 Test akun kantor ssh -T git@github.com-office Harus keluar: Hi akunkantor! You've successfully authenticated... 🔸 Test akun personal ssh -T git@github.com-personal Hi akunpersonal! You've successfully authenticated... Kalau masih salah akun → berarti ssh-agent belum memuat key yang benar. Coba reset agent: https://github.com/username/repo.git git@github.com-personal:username/repo.git Pastikan: IdentityFile ejaannya benar. Path file benar. Host alias sama dengan remote URL  ( 7 min )

‘Weird Science’ Rewatchables Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt crack open John Hughes’s 1985 sci-fi teen comedy, Weird Science, in a delightfully off-the-rails Rewatchables episode. They romp through all the sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll (and yes, chips, dips, chains and whips), dissecting Anthony Michael Hall’s hapless nerds, Kelly LeBrock’s instantly iconic Lisa and Ilan Mitchell-Smith’s awkward heroics. Producers Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo keep the banter rolling, making this one of the most fun deep-dives into a cult classic you didn’t know you needed. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Ringer-Verse and Bill Simmons channels for more movie madness. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Stakeholder analysis is the process of mapping out all stakeholders and evaluating their interests, expectations, power, and level of influence. Tools like power-interest grids, stakeholder maps, and influence matrices help project managers identify who needs close engagement versus minimal involvement. Proper analysis helps tailor communication messages, determine appropriate mediums, and anticipate risks. When managed effectively, stakeholder engagement boosts support, reduces resistance, and improves overall project outcomes.  ( 6 min )

transform 是 CSS 的二维 / 三维变换属性： 可以移动（translate） 放大缩小（scale） 旋转（rotate） 倾斜（skew） 3D 透视（perspective） 它是对元素的 渲染盒（rendering box） 做视觉变换，不影响文档流。 特性 解释 ✔ 不改变文档流 元素的位置、大小不会影响其他元素 ✔ GPU 加速 浏览器用 GPU 处理（动画流畅） ✔ 可以叠加多个变换 顺序不同，结果不同 ✔ 动画性能极好 和 opacity 是最推荐做动画的属性 ✔ transform-origin 决定变换中心 默认是 center center 1.translate：平移 transform: translateX(50px); /* 把元素在水平方向（X 轴）向右移动 50px。 */ transform: translateY(-20px); /* 把元素在垂直方向（Y 轴）向上移动 20px。 */ transform: translate(50px, -20px); /* translateX(50px) + translateY(-20px) */ transform: translate(50%, 0); /* 把元素水平移动“自身宽度的 50%”，垂直不移动。 */ 移动元素，但不占据空间 百分比基于 自身尺寸 2.scale：缩放 transform: scale(2); /* 放大 2 倍 */ transform: scaleX(1.5); /* 横向放大 */ transform: scaleY(0.5); /* 竖向缩小 */ 3.rotate：旋转 transform: rotate(45deg); transform: rotate(-90deg); 旋转中心由 transform-origin 决定。 4.skew：倾斜 transform: skewX(20deg); transform: skewY(5deg); transform: skew(20deg, 5deg); 5.matrix 包含所有 2D 变换的矩阵形式： transform: matrix(a, b, c, d, e, f); 适合高级动画或计算变换。 a：scaleX（水平缩放） b：skewY（Y 轴倾斜） c：skewX（X 轴倾斜） d：scaleY（垂直缩放） e：translateX（水平移动） f：translateY（垂直移动） 6.3D 变换函数 transform: translateZ(50px); /* 把元素在“屏幕垂直方向”前移 50px */ transform: rotateY(180deg); /* 围绕 Y 轴旋转 */ transform: rotateX(30deg); /* 围绕 Y 轴旋转 */ transform: perspective(200px); /* 给此元素本次 transform 添加透视深度 */ 开启3D视角的必要代码 body { perspective: 600px; /* 透视距离（越小越夸张） */ } 如果你想让子元素保持 3D： transform-style: preserve-3d; 但 它不是开启 3D 的必要条件，只是让子元素不被压扁。 默认： transform-origin: 50% 50%; 也就是元素中心。 你可以改变变换的中心： transform-origin: left top; transform-origin: bottom right; transform-origin: 0 0; transform-origin: 100px 50%; 动画时特别关键，例如： 从左侧展开：transform-origin: left 从底部弹起：transform-origin: bottom transform: translate(50px) scale(2); 和 transform: scale(2) translate(50px); 这 两个视觉结果完全不一样。 你可以把 transform 理解成“流水线处理”： 第一段变换 → 第二段变换 → 第三段变换 … 改变 transform 不会影响布局，不会让其他元素重新排列。 transform 不会改变元素的实际宽高 transform 不会被其他元素“挤开”  ( 6 min )

Overview In our Next.js application, we encountered connection pool exhaustion issues during development hot reloads because each page was creating its own PrismaClient instance. This article explains how we resolved this problem by implementing a proper singleton pattern and optimizing connection pool settings for Neon Database. Next.js 14+ (App Router) Prisma ORM (v5.x) PostgreSQL (Neon Database) TypeScript (v5.x) Singleton Pattern Edge Runtime Support We were experiencing the following issues in our development environment: // Each page was creating its own instance (BAD practice) // app/dashboard/page.tsx export default async function DashboardPage() { const prisma = new PrismaClient(); // ❌ Creates new instance every time const customers = await prisma.customer.findMany(); //…  ( 15 min )

“I didn’t realize how much of my life I’d given away… until I checked what my apps knew about me.” A friend sent me that message recently. She wasn’t exaggerating. One quick look into her app permissions and she discovered that a simple photo-editing app had access to her microphone, location, full gallery, and even real-time behavioral data. But the lesson stayed with me: 👉 People are more aware, more cautious, and more protective of their digital lives than ever. 👉 And they want content creators to help them stay informed, empowered, and safe. This is why addressing data privacy, AI ethics, and digital rights is no longer optional. It is a duty — and a powerful way to build trust, authority, and influence. 🔥Your Audience Is Not Just Consuming Content… They’re Trusting You Every time …  ( 8 min )

Most days I think about data pipelines, infrastructure and delivery speed — not trash bags. But in 2025, you can’t separate IT from waste anymore, especially when you look at the numbers. The Global E-waste Monitor 2024 estimates that the world generated 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022, up 82% since 2010, and we’re on track to hit 82 million tonnes by 2030, while only about 22% is formally collected and recycled. At the same time, Circle Economy’s latest analysis shows that only 6.9% of all materials used globally come from recycled sources, and that share has actually been falling. If you’re a CIO, CTO or IT director, a non-trivial chunk of that problem sits directly under your responsibility: laptops, phones, servers, network equipment, peripherals, cloud usage patterns, plus the da…  ( 13 min )

Timothy was optimizing a web scraper when he hit a wall. "Margaret, I don't understand threading in Python. I rewrote my scraper to use 4 threads thinking it would be 4x faster, but it's actually slower than the single-threaded version! My CPU monitor shows only one core is being used. Everyone says 'it's the GIL,' but what is the GIL? And why does Python have this limitation?" Margaret leaned back with a knowing smile. "The GIL - the Global Interpreter Lock. It's Python's most misunderstood feature and the source of endless debate. But here's the secret: the GIL isn't a bug, it's a design tradeoff that shaped Python's entire ecosystem. Understanding it will completely change how you write concurrent Python code." "A design tradeoff?" Timothy looked skeptical. "It sounds like a limitation.…  ( 24 min )

When I first tackled a Netflix system design interview, I was overwhelmed. The platform’s complex architecture felt impenetrable. Streaming billions of hours daily? How do you even start breaking that down? Since then, I’ve dived deep into various Netflix system design interview courses—from Educative’s hands-on modules to ByteByteGo’s walkthroughs and DesignGurus.io’s frameworks. Along the way, I learned a ton. Today, I want to share 7 actionable lessons to help you ace your Netflix system design interview and build scalable, maintainable systems like the pros. I remember fumbling in my first mock interview—launching straight into cache layers and CDN strategies. The interviewer paused me and said, “Hold on. What problem are we solving exactly?” (Pro tip) Always clarify requirements upfro…  ( 9 min )

Revolutionizing SQL Development with Oracle APEX AI Assistant Rajesh Vohra ・ Oct 20 #oracle #cloud #sql #ai  ( 6 min )

What is Asset Retirement? Asset retirement in IT Asset Management (ITAM) is the process of officially taking an asset out of service once it has reached the end of its useful life. This means the device or system is no longer active, no longer assigned to a user, and no longer part of daily operations. When an asset is retired, IT teams make sure it is safely removed, securely wiped, and accurately recorded so the organization stays compliant and maintains a trustworthy inventory. Assets are commonly retired because: End of useful life: the device is old, slow, or unreliable. Technological obsolescence: newer and more efficient alternatives are available. High maintenance cost: the asset requires frequent repairs or becomes too expensive to maintain. Damage or loss: the asset is stolen,…  ( 15 min )

Oracle’s Multilingual Engine (MLE) allows you to run JavaScript directly inside the database alongside PL/SQL. This lets you create procedures, functions, and modules in JavaScript that can be called from PL/SQL. MLE is great for beginners because it makes it easy to mix SQL and JavaScript, run small tests quickly, and write reusable logic in a familiar language. Use Case: Quickly test JavaScript logic without creating a module. CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE inline_js_demo BEGIN What happens: Quick execution of JS logic. No module creation needed. Useful for small computations or testing. Teaches: PURE environment, simple math logic JavaScript Module PURE Environment Procedure Execution Teaches: JS string functions, returning values Inline JS Function Call It Teaches: Executing SQL inside JavaScript (MLE SQL driver) JavaScript Module export function avgSalary() { SELECT AVG(salary) avg_sal FROM Employees); Procedure + Call Spec Usage SELECT js_emp_avg FROM dual;  ( 7 min )

There was a time when I thought any AI interview coach would do the job. For weeks, I used Sensei AI. It looked solid, clean UI, instant feedback, and tons of questions. It was like talking to a robot that read the job description but never met a human recruiter. Then I tried Final Round AI. answering questions; it’s about building confidence through realistic interaction. Before diving into the comparison, let’s clarify what both tools actually are. It's an interview preparation platform that uses artificial intelligence to simulate mock interviews, evaluate your answers, and provide feedback. Check out Sensei AI 🥋 Final Round AI On the other hand, Final Round AI takes a more immersive approach. Check out Final Round AI 🔥 Both aim to make you better at interviews. Like…  ( 8 min )

The Multilingual Engine (MLE) in Oracle 26ai opens a whole new world for developers by allowing JavaScript to run natively inside the database, right alongside traditional PL/SQL. For beginners, this means you can combine the simplicity of JavaScript with the power of Oracle’s SQL engine to build cleaner logic, faster transformations, and more flexible procedures. The examples below walk through easy, practical use cases—from formatting text and doing basic math to running SQL queries and returning JSON—all designed to help new users quickly understand how PL/SQL and JavaScript work together through MLE. Use Case: Print "Hello World" dynamically using JavaScript from PL/SQL. SET SERVEROUTPUT ON; DECLARE -- JavaScript code stored in a CLOB l_jscode := q'~ console.log('Hello World, dynamically from JavaScript!'); ~'; -- Execute JavaScript dynamically DBMS_MLE.eval( context_handle => l_ctx, language_id => 'JAVASCRIPT', source => l_jscode, source_name => 'DynamicHelloWorld' ); -- Drop the context to free resources DBMS_MLE.drop_context(l_ctx); END; What happens: A new execution context is created. JavaScript code is executed dynamically. Output is printed via DBMS_OUTPUT. Context is explicitly dropped. Use Case: Encapsulate reusable logic in a module and call it from PL/SQL. Step 1: Create a JavaScript Module Hello, ${name} from JS module!); Step 2: Create a PL/SQL Procedure Call Specification Step 3: Call the Procedure in PL/SQL What happens: hello_module stores reusable JS code. hello_proc exposes JS function to PL/SQL. Output is printed via DBMS_OUTPUT. Use Case: Run computational code without accessing database state. Step 1: Create a PURE JavaScript Module Sum is: ${a + b}); Step 2: Create a PURE Environment Step 3: Create a Call Specification Using PURE Environment Step 4: Execute the Procedure What happens: Code runs isolated from database objects. Ideal for running third-party libraries or computations securely. Only allows input/output operations.  ( 9 min )

I spent 3 months learning React. Built 4 projects. Felt confident. Then got destroyed in my first code review. "Why are you doing it like this?" "This isn't how React works." "Did you learn this from a 2018 tutorial?" Turns out, I learned React completely wrong. Here's what I wish someone told me on Day 1. What I did: class MyComponent extends React.Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { count: 0 }; } render() { return {this.state.count} ; } } Why it's wrong: Class components are legacy. The industry moved to functional components in 2019. What I should've learned: function MyComponent() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0); return {count} ; } The lesson: Don't learn outdated patterns. Check when the tutorial was ma…  ( 8 min )

What If Your AI App Could Generate Revenue in Two Ways Simultaneously? As developers, we’re all too familiar with the challenge of monetizing our AI-powered applications. With the AI app landscape booming, many of us find ourselves at a crossroads: how can we create a sustainable revenue model without disrupting the user experience? Enter Monetzly—the first platform that lets you monetize your AI apps and earn from hosting relevant ads. Imagine not only charging users for your application but also generating income through contextual advertising. This is the dual-earning model that Monetzly offers, and it’s a game changer in the AI space. Here’s how it works: Monetize Without Barriers With Monetzly, you can say goodbye to subscription fees or paywalls. Your users can engage with your …  ( 7 min )

Model : This level is considered the lowest level when compared with the View and Controller. It primarily represents the data to the user and defines the storage of all the application’s data objects. User --> Dispatche servlet(front controller)--> Controller-->Module-->Services, repositories, Database- data  ( 5 min )

The UK’s financial landscape continues to play a pivotal role in shaping global investment sentiment. Among the most widely followed benchmarks, the FTSE 100 remains a central indicator of how Britain’s largest companies are performing and how investors perceive market stability. As economic conditions shift and geopolitical dynamics evolve, the index remains a barometer of both challenges and opportunities within the UK’s corporate environment. What the FTSE 100 Represents The Importance of Tracking the Index Factors Driving Current Movements Currency Influence Global Commodity Trends Interest Rate Expectations Corporate Earnings Global Economic Conditions Why the Index Remains Resilient Potential Risks on the Horizon Inflation pressures that could affect consumer spending and corporate margins. Persistent geopolitical uncertainty, particularly regarding trade relations and regulatory policies. Market corrections triggered by shifts in investor sentiment or unexpected economic announcements. Sector-specific slowdowns, especially in industries sensitive to global demand, such as energy and mining. Investors must remain alert to these risks and understand how they may affect individual components of the index. Opportunities for Investors The Role of the FTSE 100 in the Broader Economy Looking Ahead Conclusion As one of the world’s most followed stock market benchmarks, the FTSE 100 remains central to evaluating financial stability, global exposure, and investor sentiment. Its performance reflects the ongoing narrative of the UK’s place in the international economy, mirroring both resilience and responsiveness to global events. For anyone tracking market developments or seeking long-term investment insight, the index continues to serve as an essential reference point. To explore real-time insights or monitor performance, you can revisit the FTSE 100 directly.  ( 9 min )

A Computer Port Defined A computer port is a physical or virtual interface that enables data to flow between a computer and external devices, or between software applications and network connections. They are essential for communication and connectivity. Computer ports can be understood from two primary contexts: Physical ports (hardware) Virtual/logical ports (software networking) These are the physical sockets on the computer's casing where you plug in cables and devices. They provide a standardized mode of connection to peripherals like monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, and external hard drives. Examples include USB, HDMI, Ethernet, and audio jacks. These are not physical sockets but numerical identifiers (ranging from 0 to 65,535) used by networking protocols, e.g., TCP, UDP, a…  ( 8 min )

Jahari Stampley takes us behind the scenes of his rise to the cutting edge of improvisational jazz piano, from his big win at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Piano Competition to the breakthrough techniques that make his playing feel like nothing you’ve heard before. Along the way he gives a shout-out to his My Beato Club supporters, whose backing helps him keep innovating and sharing his music with the world. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Have you ever struggled with frustrating voice typing errors that turned your carefully planned message into gibberish? You're not alone. Voice-to-text technology has revolutionized how we communicate, but accuracy remains a common challenge for many users. Whether you're using voice typing for professional documentation, content creation, or casual messaging, reducing errors is essential for maintaining productivity and professionalism. In this guide, we'll explore practical strategies to minimize voice typing mistakes and help you achieve near-perfect transcription accuracy. Let's dive into the world of error-free dictation. Key Questions About Voice Typing Accuracy What causes voice typing errors in the first place? Can I completely eliminate transcription mistakes? Which tools provide …  ( 8 min )

The Controller is the most important component because it handles all incoming requests. DispatcherServlet(Front controller) --> HandlerMapping(URLs& ref control)--> Actual controller. When the user sends a request, it first reaches the Controller. The Controller layer typically includes: 1.Front Controller (e.g., DispatcherServlet in Spring) 2.URL Mapping (decides which controller method should handle the request) 3.Actual Controller Logic (processes the request and returns a response)  ( 6 min )

I recently built an experiment that I honestly can’t stop listening to. It’s a virtual, web-based Boombox. You tune the dial, the station changes, and the music crossfades in real-time. But here is the kicker: The DJ is AI. Every time you settle on a station, a dynamically generated voice (courtesy of Gemini text-to-speech) chimes in to introduce the track and the genre, totally context-aware. It feels like a ghost in the machine, and it was built using the Google Gen AI SDK, Lit, and the Lyria Real-Time model. Here is how I built it. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1990544411953168752-881'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1990544411953168752&theme=dark" } …  ( 9 min )

Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt dive into the Ringer’s latest Rewatchables episode all about John Hughes’s 1985 teen classic Weird Science, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. Expect a fun, informal romp through the movie’s wild 80s vibe—sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll and all the neon-soaked antics that made it a cult favorite. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I have always enjoyed taking photos but like most people today, I am drowning in them. Unlike the good ol’ days where you had a roll of 24 or 36 shots and had to make each one count, nowadays a single trip leaves me with hundreds of images across my phone, camera, and cloud shares from friends. The real challenge isn’t taking photos anymore, but curating and organizing them. Sure, you could upload everything into your favorite cloud storage provider and ask their built-in AI service to organize them for you. But why send terabytes over the wire (and hope some cloud AI doesn’t mislabel your dog as a toaster) when you can run the whole workflow locally? If you’re in the same boat as me, follow along and I’ll show you how I built a local-only Photo Organizer Agent using an LLM, custom MCP ser…  ( 9 min )

You've connected your LLM to a SQL database using Model Context Protocol (MCP), run a query, and... oh no. Instead of the manageable 100 rows you expected, you get 50,000 records. Your LLM's context window can only handle a fraction of this data. What now? Here's how to fix this, starting with the most effective approaches. Instead of dumping raw data, provide strategic summaries that give the LLM (and your users) the big picture. SELECT COUNT(*) as total_records, AVG(sales_amount) as avg_sale, MIN(sales_amount) as min_sale, MAX(sales_amount) as max_sale, COUNT(DISTINCT customer_id) as unique_customers, SUM(sales_amount) as total_revenue FROM sales_data WHERE date >= '2024-01-01'; The LLM gets the complete statistical picture in a few dozen tokens instead of thou…  ( 7 min )

Learning Java or Spring but not sure how much you really understand? Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are one of the BEST ways to test your knowledge, spot weak areas, and build real confidence — especially for interviews. That’s why I’ve created developer-focused MCQ tests covering: Core Java OOP & Collections Spring & Spring Boot SQL & Databases REST APIs And more coming soon! Each test is: 💡 Start practicing here: https://www.quipoin.com/practice-mcqs/testseries Whether you're preparing for a job, internship, or just leveling up — these MCQs will help you grow smarter, faster.  ( 6 min )

Overview The Cloud PC Pool feature in Microsoft Copilot Studio (preview) introduces a transformative way to run “computer use” agents on virtual machines (VMs) hosted in Microsoft’s cloud. These agents simulate human interaction with desktop and web applications—clicking, typing, navigating—without relying on APIs or local devices. This capability is powered by Windows 365 for Agents, enabling organizations to automate legacy systems, proprietary tools, and hybrid workflows with full governance and compliance. A Cloud PC pool is a scalable group of Microsoft Entra-joined and Intune-enrolled virtual machines. These VMs are centrally managed and provisioned to run UI automation tasks triggered by Copilot Studio agents. No local machine required: Agents run on cloud-hosted VMs. Auto-scaling…  ( 7 min )

PrestaShop Developer Conference 2025: Your Essential Guide to What's Next ⏳ The Countdown is Officially On! Tomorrow. Just one more sleep until the highly anticipated PrestaShop Developer Conference 2025 commences. And honestly, my excitement is palpable! With over 15 years dedicated to developing, optimizing, and intricately working with PrestaShop, I can confidently say that these Developer Conferences transcend mere technical events. They are pivotal moments where the platform's trajectory is set, where groundbreaking innovations spring to life, and where the collective energy of the community becomes truly tangible. This year holds particular significance. With the recent launch of PrestaShop 9, the increasing integration of AI into our workflows, and the ever-growing impo…  ( 9 min )

Hello and welcome to the story of how Shroomok project was born. * This publication does not pretend to be a tutorial at all. Also it's a bit chaotic :) Since the immemorial, humans have struggled to share information with each other. Approaches to do this has been changed a lot: from nodding/touching/biting/screaming to using sensible voice constructions. But the real tectonic shift was The Writing! Nowadays, thousands and thousands of people producing tons of content about their knowledge, ideas, and humble opinions on the internet. Sometimes, they receive feedback from audience as well :-) To do so we either use platforms such as twitter/dev.to/reddit/etc, or some of us choose the Samurai way with autonomous tools (e.g. self-hosted WordPress) How often do you worry about the details o…  ( 15 min )

Introduction I’ve always been a big fan of managed and truly serverless services offered by public cloud providers like AWS. I want to be able to prototype and build applications with as little infrastructure handling and management as possible. My time should be spent focusing on the business logic of the problem at hand. I really like using services on AWS like Lambda, API Gateway, the Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), and many others. For a database platform I have almost always used DynamoDB. DynamoDB tables can be provisioned and ready to use in seconds. The service is highly performant at any scale and you just pay for what you use. I don’t have to pay $100’s per month for something I may only use once a week. In recent times we’ve had a resurgence of i…  ( 15 min )

Why Prompt Templates Are the New APIs Jaideep Parashar ・ Nov 18 #webdev #ai #api #architecture  ( 6 min )

(And why developers who learn this early will dominate the next decade) APIs shaped the last decade of software. Most developers still see prompts as “text instructions.” Interfaces Protocols Abstractions Reusable logic layers Integration points Product components In other words, APIs for intelligence. 1. Prompts Now Function Like Declarative Endpoints In traditional APIs, you say: “Give me user data.” In prompt APIs, you say: “Analyse this user data, find anomalies, explain the reasoning, and recommend next steps.” One call. Prompts don’t just return data; they return meaning. That’s why prompt templates are becoming the new intelligence endpoints. 2. Reusable Prompt Templates = Reusable Logic Think of this as the evolution of functions: Functions reuse code. APIs reuse services. Prompt t…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Introducing Agentic Postgres: The First & Free Database Built for Agents Ajay Kulkarni for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB) ・ Oct 21 #ai #database #postgres #agents  ( 5 min )

1. a16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill — he says bring it on Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/a16z-backed-super-pac-is-targeting-alex-bores-sponsor-of-new-yorks-ai-safety-bill-he-says-bring-it-on/ Summary: A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, and other tech leaders has targeted New York Assembly member Alex Bores' congressional campaign, marking its first attack against a lawmaker supporting AI regulation. 2. Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/822636/google-robby-starbuck-defamation-lawsuit-ai-chatbot Summary: Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associat…  ( 7 min )

If you’ve been in tech for a while, you’ve probably encountered Pluralsight at some point. It’s polished, professional, and built with a strong enterprise focus. Many developers rely on it to learn cloud, DevOps, security, or general engineering skills. But after a while, you may notice something: Pluralsight can feel a lot like the mandatory onboarding videos HR assigns. Endless lectures. Assessments that don’t always translate into usable skills. Skill IQ quizzes that tell you your Kubernetes proficiency level but don’t necessarily help you deploy a real cluster without double-checking the YAML. That’s why many developers start looking for Pluralsight alternatives that feel faster, more interactive, and more practical. Fortunately, there are several platforms that deliver exactly that. B…  ( 8 min )

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics have become the backbone of modern businesses, from real-time recommendations to fraud detection to personalized customer experiences. But behind every powerful AI model lies a massive amount of sensitive data. And without the right security, innovation collapses. Today, cloud data security is not just a compliance requirement, it’s a core driver of innovation. The safer your data ecosystem, the more confidently you can build, scale, and experiment with AI. AI models rely on enormous datasets, including: Customer information Transaction logs Behavioral data Sensor/IoT data Enterprise operations data Any breach or misuse not only causes financial loss but also destroys trust. Strong data security helps organizations: Build high-quality datasets Pre…  ( 7 min )

.add() → Add one item to set .remove() → Remove item (error if missing) .discard() → Remove safely without any error .union() → Combine elements from both sets .intersection() → Return only common elements .difference() → Keep elements unique in first set .clear() → Remove all items from set Mastering Python doesn’t have to feel overwhelming — especially when the concepts are broken down visually. minimal, emoji-based infographic that explains the most important Python Set methods in the simplest way possible. Whether you're learning Python for Data Science, Automation, Backend Development, Machine Learning, or DSA, understanding set operations like add(), remove(), union(), and intersection() can help you write cleaner, faster, and more efficient code. Sets play a huge role in deduplication, filtering, comparisons, and mathematical operations — and this visual guide makes each method super easy to understand. Minimal visuals. Maximum clarity. beginners, and a refreshing quick-reference for experienced developers. If you love clean learning resources, this guide will make Python feel simple, logical, and even fun! 🐍⭐  ( 6 min )

Chatbots are everywhere now, right? They pop up on websites, in apps, and honestly, they can be a real help. But sometimes, they just don't get what you're asking for. It's like talking to a wall. The trick to making them actually useful is teaching them to understand what you want. This is all about something called 'intents.' Figuring out how to make a chatbot understand customer intent is key to making these tools work well. We'll break down how to get your chatbot on the same page as your customers. Chatbot intents are basically the goals or actions a user wants to achieve when they message a bot. Knowing this helps the bot respond the right way. There are different types of intents, like when someone just wants information, needs to do something (like buy something), wants help findin…  ( 16 min )

Modern developers work across multiple databases, cloud environments, and tools. Yet, most existing database GUIs either focus on a single engine, lack AI assistance, or lock core features behind paid tiers. To solve this, I’ve been building dbfuse-ai, an open-source, cross-database GUI with prompt-based AI-assisted SQL generation, driver-based extensibility, and a roadmap to support advanced features such as MCP integration, ER diagrams, schema exploration, and more. This project is growing quickly, and I’m actively looking for contributors who are interested in databases, Node.js, backend systems, AI integrations, and open-source collaboration. dbfuse-ai is a flexible JavaScript/TypeScript-based library that provides: A unified interface for working with multiple SQL databases A pluggab…  ( 8 min )

Modern developers work across multiple databases, cloud environments, and tools. Yet, most existing database GUIs either focus on a single engine, lack AI assistance, or lock core features behind paid tiers. To solve this, I’ve been building dbfuse-ai, an open-source, cross-database GUI with prompt-based AI-assisted SQL generation, driver-based extensibility, and a roadmap to support advanced features such as MCP integration, ER diagrams, schema exploration, and more. This project is growing quickly, and I’m actively looking for contributors who are interested in databases, Node.js, backend systems, AI integrations, and open-source collaboration. dbfuse-ai is a flexible JavaScript/TypeScript-based library that provides: A unified interface for working with multiple SQL databases A pluggab…  ( 8 min )

Taking on a new challenge: solving GeeksforGeeks POTD daily and sharing my solutions! 💻🔥 Problem: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/number-of-ways-to-arrive-at-destination/1 Number of Ways to Arrive at Destination Difficulty: Medium Accuracy: 61.13% You are given an undirected weighted graph with V vertices numbered from 0 to V-1 and E edges, represented as a 2D array edges[][], where edges[i] = [ui, vi, timei] means that there is an undirected edge between nodes ui and vi that takes timei minutes to reach. Examples: Constraints: Solution: import heapq dist = [10**18] * V ways = [0] * V dist[0] = 0 ways[0] = 1 pq = [(0, 0)] mod = 10**9+7 while pq: d, u = heapq.heappop(pq) if d > dist[u]: continue for v, w in g[u]: nd = d + w if nd < dist[v]: dist[v] = nd ways[v] = ways[u] heapq.heappush(pq, (nd, v)) elif nd == dist[v]: ways[v] = (ways[v] + ways[u]) % mod return ways[V-1] % mod  ( 7 min )

Key Takeaways The relationship between data and applications is undergoing a fundamental shift. For decades, we've moved data to applications. Now, we're moving applications to data. This isn't just an architectural preference—it's becoming a necessity as businesses demand richer context, faster insights, and real-time operations. Here's what's driving this change: Context is king: Connected data provides multidimensional insights that isolated data simply cannot match The old pattern is breaking: Extracting data to specialized tools creates silos, brittleness, and duplication The line has blurred: Enterprise Data Platforms are no longer just analytical systems—they're becoming operational platforms Three critical shifts: Data latency must drop to seconds, query latency to sub-seconds, a…  ( 15 min )

I spent 30 days building and polishing this Claude Code plugin for agent builders. It has 5 slash commands I use every day. Now let me show you how magical they are and how I built and polished them over the past 30 days. /generate-code-map-headers - Generate code map headers When we use Claude Code to vibe code, sometimes it needs multiple steps to search and find the most related code and figure out the data flow trace stack, etc. If you run it every day when you finish work, the next morning Claude will understand the code relationships in one step and code much faster. /design-refine - Iteratively refine website design to professional standards If you're building frontend like me, you'll find it's annoying to deal with small design problems. You have to screenshot and tell Claude Code…  ( 7 min )

You browse a product online in the morning, receive a personalized offer by noon, and walk into a nearby store in the evening where the associate already knows exactly what you were looking for. That’s not coincidence — it’s the result of an omnichannel CRM seamlessly connecting every touchpoint across your digital and physical journey. In 2025, customer expectations have evolved. People don’t just want convenience — they want continuity. Whether they’re shopping, banking, or booking a doctor’s appointment, they expect every interaction to feel connected, intelligent, and personal. Modern CRM systems have evolved to make this possible. What once served as a static database for storing customer information has now become an adaptive ecosystem that unifies data, predicts behavior, and del…  ( 11 min )

Ethereum reste l’une des blockchains les plus influentes du Web3. Bien plus qu’un actif à acheter, c’est aujourd’hui une infrastructure de développement utilisée par des milliers de projets, d’applications décentralisées et d’innovations numériques. Le réseau évolue rapidement, poussé par des besoins de performance, de sécurité et de simplicité d’utilisation. Grâce à des plateformes accessibles comme MoonPay, l’accès à Ethereum est devenu plus simple pour les utilisateurs qui souhaitent interagir avec les applications Web3. Cette facilité d’entrée encourage davantage de développeurs à construire et tester de nouvelles idées, ce qui alimente une évolution technologique continue. Voici six tendances incontournables qui redéfinissent l’avenir d’Ethereum et celui des développeurs qui l’utilise…  ( 8 min )

If you’ve ever hosted a web app, a personal homelab service, or even a simple dashboard exposed to the internet, you’ve probably felt that lingering anxiety: “Is someone trying to break into this right now?” And honestly… they probably are. From SQL injection and XSS to brute-force login attempts and automated bots scanning for weak points, the modern web is full of constant, noisy, and increasingly sophisticated attacks. A single exposed service — whether it's your NAS, media server, or production API — can quickly become an attacker’s entry point. This is where a reliable Web Application Firewall (WAF) becomes essential. Today, let’s take a closer look at SafeLine, a powerful and production-ready open-source WAF that’s easy to deploy, actively maintained, and built to help you secure any…  ( 8 min )

Sometimes, being lazy is good. But that's no excuse for being lazy in work! It is only a valid excuse in programming if you apply at the right time and right place. The original article is here. Let's take this simple null-coalescing example: var object = object == null ? getDefaultObject() : object; A simple but elegant solution when you want to assign a default value to a variable if the object is null. Classic Java 101! Then, you get fancy and create a helper method to adhere to the DRY principle: // Sweet, sweet juicy usage of generics T getOrDefault(T object, T defaultValue) { return object == null ? defaultValue : object; } Also, FYI: DRY principle stands for Don't Repeat Yourself (ironically, I just repeated that) And then, riding high on your DRY-fueled mo…  ( 8 min )

Cloud computing has revolutionized how companies build and deploy software applications. Instead of investing in physical servers and networking equipment, organizations can now set up global IT environments within minutes and scale on demand. But this convenience comes with new security risks. As more critical data and applications move to the cloud, attackers follow. Securing your cloud environment isn’t optional anymore; it’s fundamental to building trust, ensuring resilience, and avoiding costly breaches. This guide walks through why cloud security matters now more than ever, how it differs from traditional on-premises security, and how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) plays a central role in protecting your cloud assets. You’ll find clear analogies, practical examples, and vis…  ( 12 min )

A gente fala muito sobre a evolução das pessoas… mas empresas também evoluem. E eu vivi isso em duas experiências marcantes na minha carreira, de perspectivas diferentes: Na primeira, depois que entrei na empresa, comecei a ouvir críticas e comentários negativos de ex-funcionários e colegas, principalmente sobre como os gestores lidavam com os problemas do dia a dia e com o pessoal — histórias antigas ruins, que geravam uma percepção de ambiente difícil. Confesso que fiquei com um pé atrás, e minhas expectativas ficaram baixas, mas ao longo dos meses percebi que as coisas já estavam bem melhores e continuaram evoluindo. Na segunda experiência, eu tinha uma ideia negativa formada sobre a empresa, tanto que dizia a colegas que nunca trabalharia lá. Mas algumas propostas chegaram, amigos me convidaram e, após reflexão e um período de oração, aceitei. Foi a melhor experiência da minha carreira até então. plano de carreira real, alcancei a posição que almejava quase dentro do prazo esperado e tive um desenvolvimento profissional muito positivo. Essas experiências me fizeram refletir: às vezes carregamos a imagem de uma empresa baseada em versões antigas — e esquecemos que organizações também passam por fases, ciclos, aprendizados, erros e recomeços. Assim como nós. Empresas sérias realmente buscam evoluir, revisando práticas do dia a dia, a forma de lidar com pessoas, projetos e cultura. Quem entra depois pode perceber essa evolução de forma direta. Assim como damos segunda chance a profissionais em recomeços, vale lembrar que empresas também podem mudar e merecem ser vistas com novos olhos. No fim, evolução não é um evento, é um processo. E isso vale para todos, pessoas e empresas.  ( 7 min )

Packing Power: AI Cracks the Sphere Optimization Code Imagine squeezing the maximum number of oranges into a crate. Seems simple, right? Now, scale that up to higher dimensions, where intuition fails. Finding the most efficient way to arrange spheres in multi-dimensional space – the "kissing number problem" – has baffled mathematicians for centuries. The breakthrough lies in reframing the problem as a game. Think of it as two AI agents battling it out. One agent strategically places spheres, while the other fine-tunes their positions to maximize the number that can touch a central sphere without overlapping. This collaborative "sphere-juggling" approach leverages reinforcement learning to explore incredibly complex configurations. The result? An AI system that not only rediscovers known …  ( 7 min )

There are years that whisper change, and years that thunder it. 2025 was the latter—a year when the future stopped feeling like a distant promise and started feeling like the ground beneath our feet. As I write this in late 2025, I'm struck by how dramatically the landscape has shifted, not through a single revolutionary moment, but through a constellation of launches, breakthroughs, and quiet innovations that have fundamentally altered how we build, create, and think about technology. This isn't just another year-in-review. This is a map of the threshold we've crossed, drawn from the launches that mattered, the tools that changed everything, and the moments when we collectively realized: the future is no longer coming. It's here. When Anthropic launched Claude 4 in early 2025, followed by…  ( 17 min )

Considerando as mudanças de mercado que vêm acontecendo nos últimos anos, todos nós estamos sujeitos a passar por isso. Nem todo profissional desligado em uma demissão em massa é alguém que não entrega resultados. Muitas vezes a empresa precisa fazer um corte cirúrgico de gastos. Há casos em que você está entre os que mais ganham e acaba virando um candidato natural ao corte. Mas isso não é um demérito: é uma conquista do seu trabalho. O mercado continua cheio de oportunidades onde você pode ganhar o mesmo ou mais. Falando do lado emocional, é importante entender que não é pessoal. A relação de trabalho é um contrato que pode ser encerrado a qualquer momento. Claro que existem situações específicas que podem contribuir para o desligamento: conflito interno com outro profissional relevante, redução de time, mudança de foco ou projetos, encerramento de iniciativas. Normalmente, times de pesquisa, inovação, arquitetura e projetos secundários são os primeiros impactados. A ideia desse artigo é deixar um alerta para que você esteja preparado. Mas a pergunta é: como? Como se preparar Aqui estão os pilares que realmente fazem diferença quando o inesperado acontece: 1. Construa uma boa rede de contatos 2. Mantenha um perfil profissional relevante 3. Tenha visibilidade no mercado 4. Invista em idiomas 5. Converse sobre o mercado 6. Atualize-se constantemente 7. Mantenha seus perfis e portfólio vivos 8. Explore coisas novas dentro da sua área 9. Entenda seu valor no mercado 10. Tenha uma reserva de emergência Conclusão O objetivo não é viver com medo, mas viver consciente. Ser bom no que você faz importa. Estar preparado para o inesperado importa ainda mais.  ( 7 min )

In modern office workflows and data processing, PDF files stand out for their unrivaled format stability, making them a staple across industries. For Python developers, adding pages to PDFs is a recurring need—whether for automating document assembly, appending content to generated reports, or integrating custom text/image layouts into existing files. Mastering this skill streamlines workflows, eliminates the hassle of manual editing, and boosts productivity in document-centric tasks. Spire.PDF for Python emerges as a powerful, user-friendly solution for such requirements. As a full-featured PDF processing library, it offers intuitive APIs tailored to diverse page-adding scenarios. This guide breaks down its core functionalities, paired with production-ready code examples to help you imple…  ( 8 min )

Managing state in a complex web application can feel like trying to run a sprawling, disorganized warehouse. Data is everywhere, and you never know who changed what or when. This is where Redux steps in, acting as a meticulous system for organizing and controlling every piece of information in your app. Here’s a simple, real-world analogy that breaks down the main players in the Redux architecture—the Store, the Component, the Action, the Reducer, and the crucial Middleware. Imagine an e-commerce application where a customer buys a single product, like a television. The Store is the entire Department Store's Inventory Database. It is the single, undisputed source of truth. It holds every piece of data—the stock counts for TVs, the customer lists, the pricing, and the current state of every…  ( 8 min )

When learning to code, it's tempting to reach for built-in functions like min() and max() whenever you need to find the smallest or largest values in a list. But understanding how to implement these operations from scratch is crucial for developing your problem-solving skills and deepening your understanding of fundamental algorithms. Let's tackle a common programming challenge: write a function that finds both the smallest and largest numbers in a list and returns them as a tuple, without using Python's built-in min() or max() functions. Here's an elegant solution that accomplishes this in a single pass through the list: def find_min_max(lst): """ Find the minimum and maximum values in a list. Returns a tuple containing (minimum, maximum). """ if len(lst) == 0: …  ( 8 min )

💻 Mas também servem para IA, games, estudo, criação de conteúdo e entre outras tarefas do cotidiano. Com a chegada de processadores mais eficientes, telas melhores e maior integração com IA, 2026 promete ser um ano de notebooks mais potentes e acessíveis. A lista abaixo reúne 20 modelos escolhidos por variedade de uso: estudo, trabalho, programação, criação de conteúdo, games, mobilidade e custo-benefício. 01. Apple notebook MacBook Pro (de 16 polegadas, Processador M1 Pro da Apple com CPU 10‑core e GPU 16‑core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) O mais forte da lista. Tela grande de 16″, chip Apple Silicon com GPU poderosa, ideal para edição de vídeo, modelagem, programação pesada e workflows profissionais que exigem estabilidade e desempenho contínuo. Clique aqui para adquirir esse Notebook 02.…  ( 9 min )

When CSS first emerged, one of its biggest limitations was the lack of variables. Developers had to repeat colors, spacing values, and font sizes across multiple selectors. Updating a brand color or tweaking layout spacing meant tedious, error-prone find-and-replace across stylesheets. Enter CSS Variables (Custom Properties) — a modern CSS feature that made styles far more maintainable and dynamic. CSS Variables, officially called Custom Properties, are user-defined values that can be reused throughout your stylesheet. They follow a special syntax: css :root { --primary-color: #4a90e2; --spacing-md: 1.5rem; } --primary-color and --spacing-md are custom property names. Variables always begin with --. To use them, apply the var() function: css button { background-color: var(--prim…  ( 7 min )

For a React Native e-commerce application handling real-time Stock and Purchases, managing the global state efficiently is non-negotiable. Two popular choices emerge for modern React developers: the built-in Context API and the minimalist library, Zustand. While the Context API is simple and dependency-free, it often leads to critical performance bottlenecks when dealing with frequent, complex, and interconnected state—exactly the kind of state found in a busy online store. Here’s a breakdown of the two approaches and a clear argument for why Zustand is the superior choice for your stock and purchase management. The Context API is React's native solution for avoiding "prop drilling"—passing props down through many layers of components. To manage your e-commerce state, you'd logically separ…  ( 8 min )

Introduction If you've been building AI applications with LLMs lately, you've probably hit the same wall I did: these models are incredibly smart, but if we ask about current events, they don't know because they've been frozen in time. They only understand information from the data they were trained on. They don't know about your documents, your database, your company files, or what's actually happening in your business right now. Two different approaches have emerged to solve this problem: RAG and MCP. And honestly, the way people talk about them can be confusing as hell. Let me break it down in a way that actually makes sense. Think about how you get information in everyday life: RAG is like asking someone to look it up in their personal library You ask: "Hey, what did our company pol…  ( 11 min )

The Road to Glory: Assessing Individual Performances and Their Impact on World Cup 2026 As we continue to navigate the countdown to the highly anticipated World Cup 2026, it's becoming increasingly evident that several top-tier players are already gearing up for their next major international tournament. A recent article by The Athletic and The New York Times highlights this growing trend, emphasizing how these exceptional athletes are positioning themselves for success in the upcoming competition. Star Players Stepping Up One of the most significant factors contributing to a team's overall performance is the presence of skilled and experienced players who consistently deliver top-notch results. The likes of Kylian Mbappé (France), Lionel Messi (Argentina), and Robert Lewandowski (Pola…  ( 8 min )

Originally published on Entropic Drift ripgrep is one of the most popular command-line search tools, with over 57,000 stars on GitHub. Despite its popularity and rich feature set, the documentation consisted of just two files: a feature-focused README and a tutorial-style GUIDE. While these files were well-written, they left gaps: No structured learning path from basics to advanced features Limited visual aids to explain complex concepts Features scattered across different sections No dedicated troubleshooting or reference sections Using an evolved version of my documentation automation workflow (originally built for Prodigy's documentation), I generated 50+ pages of enhanced documentation, now live at https://iepathos.github.io/ripgrep. This post documents how the workflow evolved to hand…  ( 12 min )

Dev.to's feed is broken. It never shows me posts I actually want to read. The search engine doesn’t help either. I had a feeling there’s still good, advanced level content being published, buried under the clickbait and slop. So I made my own tool to find these hidden gems. I use it daily to find recently published (last 24 hours), original, and insightful posts about AI and success. I usually end up with a couple of solid reads every day. I’ll share the ones I like best here and update this page as I discover new ones. Bookmark this page if you want to stay up to speed. Disclaimer: I don’t endorse these posts. The opinions expressed belong to their authors. I just find them thought-provoking and worth reading. Enjoy. The Shift Towards Agentic AI: What It Means for Developers by @lofcz While the title comes off a bit generic, the article itself has genuinely sharp insights and correctly calls out common pitfalls (and solutions) when implementing agents. Context Engineering: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge in Production LLM Systems by @siddhantkcode This one goes deep on advanced ways to keep context lean and mean. It doesn’t give every detail, but it does link full access to the code, which is even better 😄 The Vibe Coding Trap: Why Conversational AI Makes Developers Slower by @mechero22 This one’s a bit spicy, and I’m not fully onboard with all the claims it makes. But even if it rubs you the wrong way, it will definitely give you something to chew on.  ( 6 min )

In our previous post, we explored how Horda entities work like Flutter's stateful widgets, but on the backend. We also mentioned that Horda is a stateful serverless platform. But what does that mean exactly? If you are a Flutter developer, whenever someone mentions the word "serverless", there's a high chance that Firebase Cloud Functions would come to mind. Except unlike Horda, they are stateless. So in this post let's explore what's the difference between stateful and stateless serverless, and how stateful serverless replaces traditional databases with a much faster, simpler, and more cost-efficient approach. When we say Firebase Cloud Functions are stateless, we mean they have complete amnesia. Every time a function is invoked, it starts from scratch with no memory of previous calls. It…  ( 10 min )

Why 90% of AI Apps Fail to Monetize Effectively — And How Monetzly Can Change That As AI applications continue to flood the market, it’s alarming to see that 90% of them fail to monetize effectively. What’s behind this staggering statistic? Most AI apps struggle to create sustainable revenue models without alienating users. Enter Monetzly—your solution for smarter monetization in AI conversations. The landscape of AI app development is rapidly evolving. Developers face immense pressure to deliver innovative solutions, yet many overlook a critical element: monetization. Traditional models, like subscriptions or paywalls, often disrupt user experience, leading to churn and low engagement. Monetzly flips this paradigm on its head with its dual-earning platform. Here’s how it works: develop…  ( 7 min )

Introduction: The C# Developer’s CURL Copy-Paste Conundrum Bridging Bash and .NET: Harnessing CurlDotNet for Linux-Compatible REST API Magic It’s 2 AM on deployment night, and I’m staring at a cURL example from Stripe’s docs. You know the moment — a dozen browser tabs open, half-written unit tests, and now I’m translating a curl command into C#. Again. API docs everywhere default to curl. Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, OpenAI — they all hand you a Bash-friendly snippet and expect you to mentally map: -H becomes a header object -d becomes JSON content -u becomes basic auth Oh, and don’t forget that one weird header that silently breaks everything if you miss it If you’re building C# apps on Linux, the friction gets real. We love Bash. We love .NET. But the two ecosystems don’t always sh…  ( 9 min )

Let me guess: you optimized your website for mobile by making sure it "looks okay" on your phone. Maybe ran it through Google's Mobile-Friendly Test, got a green checkmark, called it a day. Here's the thing—73% of web traffic now comes from mobile devices. But here's what keeps me up at night: mobile conversion rates still lag desktop by an average of 30-40%. We're not talking about a small gap anymore. We're talking about leaving massive revenue on the table because we're still treating mobile like desktop's smaller, less important sibling. I've spent the last year auditing mobile experiences for e-commerce and SaaS companies. The pattern is consistent and frustrating: beautiful desktop sites that turn into thumb-hostile nightmares the moment you pull out your phone. It's 2025, and we're …  ( 11 min )

With my first post here on dev.to, I thought it might be nice to just present my existing github repo of 3d designs. I want to actually get off of GitHub for the most part and make my tech/makery stuff more as a social media account. This is where I am starting. Without too much more, you can find my repo for 3d designs here: https://github.com/BoyoLabs/3dDesigns These are not all of the designs I have ever made, I just don't want to share ones that are more personal. Regardless, all of my designs will always have been printed. I also do context engineering and AI stuff, so keep a look out for that!  ( 6 min )

When building APIs, you must validate your inputs and outputs. If your API accepts any data, failure is only a matter of time. Instead of adding more ifs, use declarative validation: NestJS + class-validator + class-transformer, an async constraint that queries your DB, and a custom decorator integrated with the container. Result: errors stopped before the service layer and reusable rules across all your DTOs, with less duplicated logic. In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to build your own custom decorator to prevent these scenarios. Let's start with a base project. I have a template repository with a RESTful API using NestJS as the framework, PostgreSQL as the database, and Drizzle as the ORM—but you can create your own. This is the repo I'm using: https://github.com/RubenOAlvarado/nes…  ( 12 min )

Working with SaaS teams over the years has taught me that SEO isn’t as straightforward as many expect. The usual assumption is that publishing more blog posts will eventually lead to organic traction. I made the same mistake early in my career. I helped a SaaS tool publish around twenty articles in a single month, expecting results to follow. They didn’t. The problem wasn’t effort. It was direction. Modern SaaS SEO is different because search intent is fluid and users behave more like researchers than casual browsers. They compare, validate and dig deep before committing to a subscription. That’s why a structured approach matters, something I noticed when exploring how MADX organizes its service framework. Here’s a simple enumeration that reflects what SaaS teams often miss: SEO must conne…  ( 7 min )

Airbnb's Brian Chesky dropped a bombshell in October 2025 that most tech leaders saw coming but few dared to acknowledge publicly: his company "relies heavily" on Alibaba's Qwen models to power its AI-driven customer service agent. This from the personal friend of OpenAI's Sam Altman, essentially admitting that when the rubber meets the road, cost and performance trump loyalty. Around the same time, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya revealed his firm had migrated major workloads from OpenAI and Anthropic to Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 because it was "way more performant and frankly just a ton cheaper." Welcome to AI's Sputnik moment. While Washington celebrates chip export controls and trillion-dollar infrastructure plans, Chinese AI models are infiltrating Silicon Valley through the o…  ( 14 min )

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event-streaming platform. Let’s break this into simple words: Event Streaming This refers to two activities: Producing events (sending continuous data/messages) Consuming events (reading and processing the data continuously) Example: Pays someone Books a ticket Recharges mobile An event is created. millions of events per second. All these events are streamed to Kafka in real-time. Then, another application (consumer) reads these events from Kafka. For example: Check if a user exceeded daily transaction limits Detect fraud Send notifications So, event streaming = continuous sending + continuous processing. 2. Why is Kafka called distributed? “Distributed” means Kafka runs on multiple servers across different regions. Multiple brokers (servers) …  ( 14 min )

O Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) é um dos serviços mais fundamentais e populares da Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ele oferece capacidade computacional escalável na nuvem, permitindo que empresas e desenvolvedores executem aplicações sem a necessidade de investir em infraestrutura física. Neste artigo, vamos explorar em detalhes o que são as instâncias EC2, suas características, tipos e como utilizá-las efetivamente. O Amazon EC2 é um serviço web que fornece capacidade computacional redimensionável na nuvem. Em termos simples, são servidores virtuais que você pode provisionar em minutos e pagar apenas pelo tempo de uso. O conceito de "elasticidade" no nome refere-se à capacidade de aumentar ou diminuir a capacidade computacional rapidamente conforme as necessidades da sua aplicação. As ins…  ( 10 min )

AWS Amplify Gen2 deployment i tried to production deploy test code with amplify. I have already check the developing application work in sandbox. it' OK. in amplify gen2, the deploy of production is executed not by command prompt like the other process, but with aws console. after opening the aws amplify in aws console, it's easy to deploy along with the guide. the local application link to amplify through github repository. i tried production deployment like above, the deployment failed because of variant type of "moduleResolution". then my countermeasure is; { "compilerOptions": { "target": "ES2017", "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"], "allowJs": true, "skipLibCheck": true, "strict": true, "noEmit": true, "esModuleInterop": true, //"module": "esnext", "module": "NodeNext", // 変更 "moduleResolution": "NodeNext", // 変更 // ---------------------------------------------------------- // 💡 修正 1: .ts拡張子のインポートを許可する設定を追加 "allowImportingTsExtensions": true, // 💡 修正 2: Next.js + Amplify Gen 2で推奨される設定に調整 "moduleResolution": "NodeNext", // ---------------------------------------------------------- "resolveJsonModule": true, "isolatedModules": true, "jsx": "react-jsx", the original setting is default of next.js project. so in future at every time i build develop folder, it's necessary. in this process, i completed the product pipeline. if i update the application, i change the local file and then; git add . staging upload git commit -m "changing description" commit to local git git push push to remote repository i can reflect the local change to product just with this !! i have already prepared the full stack app dev. i keep this dev folder as template for the next. and now i have to focus on generate idea of my app.  ( 6 min )

In my last post I covered the Graph pattern and how structured, deterministic workflows can orchestrate multiple agents like a symphony orchestra following a conductor's score.👇🏼 Strands Multi-Agent Systems: Graph Laura Salinas for AWS ・ Oct 31 #aws #agents #ai #learning In this final post in this multi agent series, I'm diving into Agents as Tools. I'll share code snippets and examples that you can follow along with to build your own multi-agent system. While Graphs provide structured coordination through dependencies and Swarms enable autonomous collaboration, the Agents as Tools pattern brings hierarchical delegation to multi-agent orchestration. Instead of a single agent trying to handle everything, tasks are delegated to the most appropriate specialize…  ( 10 min )

The funding, which values Kraken at $20B, accelerates plans to integrate traditional markets with crypto infrastructure across multiple regions.  ( 34 min )

Robinhood is working on infrastructure developments, said Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner, including 24/7 trading, and leveraging technologies like Arbitrum Stylus for compatibility.  ( 34 min )

The Canadian government narrowly won favor in Parliament for its budget push that includes a new policy governing stablecoins.  ( 34 min )

LINK could target $14.50 if momentum sustains, CoinDesk Research's analysis tool suggested.  ( 34 min )

Futures prices for BTC are trading below spot prices, signaling "extreme fear," which can sometimes be read as a contrarian buy signal.  ( 34 min )

Senator Elizabeth Warren is maintaining political heat on President Trump's World Liberty Financial business interests in a letter to the Treasury and DOJ.  ( 35 min )

Some in the crypto world have called for DePIN to be more widely adopted to combat internet outage issues.  ( 34 min )

After plunging below $90,000 overnight, BTC has regained the $93,000 level in U.S. morning action.  ( 32 min )

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency explained to the national banks it oversees how they can hold crypto for paying gas fees.  ( 34 min )

The bond uses Broadridge Financial Solutions' tokenization technology and runs on the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled blockchain infrastructure.  ( 33 min )

Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin’s steep decline is part of a recurring pattern, with a rebound into year-end in his base case.  ( 34 min )

Stellar drops from $0.2577 amid broad consolidation, but technical bounce from $0.248 signals buying interest remains intact.  ( 34 min )

Revolut customers in the UK and non-European Union EEA countries can do crypto remittances in USDC, USDT, and POL.  ( 33 min )

The incubator aims to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit using Sky's up to $2.5 billion commitment, Framework Ventures' Vance Spencer said in an interview.  ( 34 min )

Hedera's native token cracked key support levels on surging volume, forming double-bottom pattern before late-session stabilization attempts.  ( 34 min )